Best Ayurvedic Treatment for Rheumatoid Arthritis in India

Morning stiffness makes you cripple in the early morning. Everyday pain keeps on biting all the joints. And even painkillers stop working with time. The body becomes resistant to all medicines. When the pain subsides with medicines, even though this disease keeps on eating the joints and cartilages. And final fate is- disability for this disease. But you can change the fate of your body with Ayurveda. Once we opt for the best ayurvedic treatment for rheumatoid arthritis, it not only ensures saving your joints but also helps in ensuring a “medicine-free” life.

Amazingly, with Vaidya Pardeep Ji we at Sukhayu have witnessed the RA factor being negative in several patients and the disease never came back! Here we are discussing all the details about the disease and its best Ayurvedic Treatment for Rheumatoid Arthritis In India.

The medicines utilized in Allopathy for the treatment of Rheumatoid arthritis have a high potential for negative effects. HCQs, for example, are well-known for adverse effects such as “hearing loss.” Methotrexate causes kidney and liver damage. However, this Ayurvedic therapy for rheumatoid arthritis in India is virtually free of side effects.

Rheumatoid arthritis is a systemic autoimmune disease – the body’s own immune system attacks its joints and causes inflammation, pain, swelling, and stiffness all over the body. In some cases, rheumatoid arthritis can cause a joint deformity as well. This disease occurs more commonly in women than men! Although rheumatoid arthritis attacks people of all ages, it often appears first in women between the ages of 20 and 40.

Rheumatoid arthritis is a progressive inflammatory disease that causes pain, swelling, and stiffness of joints. As the disease progresses, it decreases the movement of joints. This condition affects not only joints but also damages other body systems, including eyes, lungs, heart, blood vessels, and skin.

Vaidya Ji on Rheumatoid Arthritis

Facts on Rheumatoid Arthritis

• Initially, rheumatoid arthritis causes swelling in feet and hands and joint pain. However, as the disease progresses, chronic inflammation leads to permanent deformity and destruction of the joints.
• It most commonly affects small joints of hands and feet.
• The characteristic feature of rheumatoid arthritis is periods of flare and remissions.
• Rheumatoid arthritis is the third commonest arthritis after osteoarthritis and gout. It is the most disabling type of autoimmune arthritis.
• Approximately 1% population across the globe lives with rheumatoid arthritis.
• About 75% of rheumatoid arthritis patients are females. About 1-3 percent of females worldwide have rheumatoid arthritis in their lifetime.
• The disease often begins at the age of 30 and 50. However, it can start at any age.
• Conventional treatment for rheumatoid arthritis can only elevate joint pain and swelling and slow the progress of the disease.
• Regular low impact exercises, for example, walking increases the muscle strength and reduces the pressure on your joints, thus, improving the quality of life in patients with RA.
• Early treatment for rheumatoid arthritis helps you to live an active life and reduces joint damage to the extent that it may require a joint replacement.
• Rheumatoid arthritis is a complex disease that affects every patient differently.
• Some diseases such as lupus, gout, osteoarthritis, and psoriatic arthritis have similar symptoms like rheumatoid arthritis; this is why it is essential to get yourself diagnosed correctly without any unnecessary treatment.
• Some other conditions that overlap or are often confused with RA are Lyme disease, fibromyalgia, sciatica, neuropathy, anemia, chronic fatigue syndrome, depression, and hypothyroidism.

Types of Rheumatoid Arthritis

Rheumatoid arthritis is classified into three types broadly. Two types are according to the presence of rheumatoid factor and the third is specifically according to the age of the patient.

The line of treatment differs in all three conditions. Here are the details about all these three.

Seropositive rheumatoid arthritis

80 % of patients with rheumatoid arthritis show a positive RF or anti-CCP test. If the blood test shows the presence of a rheumatoid factor (RF) or antibody anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide (anti-CCP), it means that the body is actively producing immune reactions to healthy tissues. However, the presence of this protein in your blood does not always mean that you have RA. If your sibling or parents show a positive RF or anti-CCP test, you have a four times greater chance of developing rheumatoid arthritis.

Seronegative RA

Even people with a negative blood test for RF and anti-CCP can have rheumatoid arthritis. However, such patients tend to have a mild form of RA in comparison to those having a positive test. 

Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis

Juvenile arthritis or juvenile idiopathic arthritis is a common type of arthritis in children younger than 17 years of age. The symptoms produced may be temporary or last lifelong. Symptoms of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis include inflammation, joint stiffness, and pain. In some cases, eyes are involved, and there is interference in the growth and development of the child.

Symptoms of Rheumatoid Arthritis 

The symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis include: 

• Swollen, warm and tender joints 
• Joint stiffness that is worse after a few hours of inactivity and in the morning. 
• Fatigue 
• Fever 
• Loss of appetite 
• Dry eyes and dry skin
• Pain in chest

During the early stages, rheumatoid arthritis affects the small joints of fingers and toes. As the disease progresses, the symptoms extend to knees and ankles, hips elbows, and shoulders.

In most cases, the symptoms include the same joints on both sides of the body. In about 40% of people, suffering from rheumatoid arthritis, the disease affects non-joint structures such as eyes, skin, heart, kidneys, lungs, nerve tissue, bone marrow, blood vessels, and salivary glands.

Causes of Rheumatoid Arthritis 

Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease. How this process starts is unknown; however, genetic components may play a role. Genes may not cause rheumatoid arthritis but make you susceptible to environmental factors such as certain viruses or bacteria infection that triggers the disease. 

Risk Factors for Rheumatoid Arthritis include: 

• Sex – Females are more likely to develop rheumatoid arthritis. 
• Age – RA commonly begins in middle age. 
• Smoking – Smoking increases the risk of developing RA. 
• Family history – You are more likely to develop rheumatoid arthritis if any of your family members has RA. 
• Obesity – Overweight and obese people, especially females, after 55 years of age, are at higher risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis. 
• Environmental exposures – Exposure to silica or asbestos increases the risk of developing RA.

How Rheumatoid Arthritis Occurs

In rheumatoid arthritis, the body’s immune system gets active and causes unnecessary inflammation inside the joints. The immune system attacks the synovium and results in pain and inflammation. The condition, if left untreated, destroys cartilages. The ligaments and tendons that hold the joint together damages and weakens. Joint loses its shape and configuration

Rheumatoid arthritis progress gradually. There are periods of remissions and periods of flare-ups when the symptoms become more intense. It is not possible to predict how rheumatoid arthritis in any individual will progress over time. However, it is noticed that for most people, the usual course of rheumatoid arthritis includes period high disease activity. With time, flare-ups become more challenging and lengthier. In another common pattern of RA, the patient experiences strong attacks during the early stages of rheumatoid arthritis, followed by a period of minimal disease activity. In about 10% of people, there is spontaneous remission within the first six months of the onset of the symptoms of RA. Remission means the disease activity stops.

As rheumatoid arthritis progress, there are changes in the body. 

Stages of Rheumatoid Arthritis

Based on the changes seen and felt, RA progresses in four stages. 

Stage 1 – It is the early stage where the patient feels pain, stiffness, and swelling in the joints. In this stage, the inflammation is inside the joint. In addition, the tissue in the joint swells up. However, there is no damage to the bone. In some cases, synovium (the joint lining) is inflamed. 

Stage 2 – Stage 2 is a moderate stage where the inflammation of the synovium damages the joint cartilage. Due to the damage to the cartilage, there is pain and loss of mobility. The range of motion of the joints becomes limited. 

Stage 3 – As rheumatoid arthritis progress to stage 3, the symptoms become severe. The damage at this point extends to the bone. The cushion between the bones wears out. The bones rub together, resulting in pain and swelling. In addition, there is muscle weakness and more loss of mobility. Not only the bones are damaged, but also deformity occurs. 

Stage 4 – There is no longer inflammation in the joint in the end stage of rheumatoid arthritis. The patient still experiences pain, stiffness swelling, and mobility loss. Muscle strength reduces. Joints destroy, and bones fuse. 

Progress through all four stages takes many years. In some people, the disease may not progress through all four stages within their lifetime. Some people may also have a period of no RA activity, and the disease goes into remission. 

Best Ayurvedic Treatment for Rheumatoid Arthritis In India under Vaidya Pardeep Sharma is designed in a way that you will get a complete solution, that too not only in primary stages but also in late stages of Rheumatoid Arthritis.

Ayurveda About Rheumatoid Arthritis

The most common analogy of Rheumatoid Arthritis is done with “Aam-Vata” in Ayurveda. Aam-Vata is similar to RA because of signs and symptoms and pathology.

Aam-Vata has two words- Aam and Vata. Aam is all about the toxins and Vata is about the dosha, which involves the toxins. When these come together, toxins settle down in the joints and cause all the problems.

The most complicated thing with Aam Vata is- these two components are quite opposite to each other because of the same, this condition becomes challenging in treatment.

Understanding Aamvata

To better understand the perspective of Ayurveda about the treatment of Rheumatoid arthritis, we need to know about the condition. So that we can understand the approach of Ayurvedic treatment.

Vata needs clear passage for the movements and Aam is sticky. Because of its nature, Aam blocks the passages where Vata moves freely. Vata is destructive in nature, therefore once blocked

Initially, the symptoms appear like those of indigestion. In this condition, the disease process has just begun and the morbidity has not reached the joints. These symptoms are:

• अंगमर्द – pain in body parts, general body ache
• अरुचि – anorexia, tastelessness
• तृष्णा – thirst
• आलस्य – lethargy, weakness
• गौरव – heaviness of the body
• ज्वर – fever
• अपाक – indigestion
• शूनता – swelling of body parts

With chronicity, things keep on changing and different symptoms start appearing in different body parts. As per Ayurveda, the changes in the digestive system are more evident in this condition. Here are the symptoms of the chronic stage of the Aam Vata.

• सरुजा शोफ – Painful swelling in all joints.
• वृश्चिकदंशवत पीड़ा – Severe, acute pain like scorpion bite/
• अग्नि दौर्बल्य – Low digestion and metabolism.
• प्रसेक, अरुचि गौरवम – Anorexia, leading to fullness of abdomen and excessive salivary secretion.
• उत्साह हानि – Low enthusiasm
• वैस्वर्यम– Bad taste in mouth
• दाह – burning sensation
• बहुमूत्रता – Excessive urination.
• ग्रहणी दोष – Irritable bowel syndrome like conditions, with episodes of constipation and diarrhoea
• कुक्षिकठिनता, शूल – Bloated abdomen with colic pain
• निद्रा विपर्यय – Sleepless in night and urge of sleep in day hours
• तृष्णा, छर्दि – Excessive thirst and vomiting
• भ्रम, मूर्छा, हृदगृहम – giddiness, syncope and heaviness in chest
• आंत्रकूजन, आनाह– Flatulence and gurgling sounds in abdomen

So it is clear that Ayurveda understands the disease properly. And therefore, Ayurveda too has a proper solution for the problem. NOw we will discuss the treatment part of Rheumatoid arthritis.

Ayurveda Treatment for Rheumatoid Arthritis

Because of the nature of the disease, it is important to control this condition, immediately. When this condition becomes chronic, it becomes hard to control this condition. Therefore you should opt for Ayurvedic treatment of Rheumatoid arthritis at the earliest.

Now we know that RA is not just another joint disease, it is more than that. Because as per Ayurveda the system is disturbed in this condition and we need to repair the immune system. So that the toxins from the body will release and won’t harm the joints further. This completes in the three steps-

1. Bringing back the Agni to normal.
2. Removal of Ama (toxins) from the body.
3. Elimination of entrapped Vata from joints.

These three steps when done with precision help in the Best Ayurvedic Treatment for Rheumatoid Arthritis In India.

Bringing back the Agni to Normal

Agni is the internal capacity of the body to burn foods and stored items. This basically represents the metabolism of the body. When food converts from one level to another level (dhatu), this process when breaks- produces Ama. And this happens amid of the low strength of the Agni.

Hence, we need to work on the Agni, primarily. So that further production of the Ama will reduce with time. This helps in stopping the progression of disease. And especially in cases of stages 1 and 2, the only first step helps in the treatment of the condition.

You can opt for this step- after online video consultation.

Removal of toxins from the body

When we have stopped the production of the Ama by bringing the Agni to its best level. Now the main requirement is to – remove the toxins from the body. Because without the removal of the toxins, this is not possible to get rid of the disease.

In some cases of stage 2 and all cases of stage 3 and 4- need this process. So panchakarma is a basic requirement for this condition.

In Panchakarma, we generally do the following process-

1. Snigdha Virechana or
2. Basti Treatment

These two treatments help to get rid of the deep-seated toxins. In stage 4 patients both are required. These procedures are only possible in Intensive Panchakarma Care only and for this, we need to admit the patient.

Elimination of entrapped Vata from joints

Without this step, we cannot save the joints. Because the nature of the RA is to destroy the joints. This happens because vata traps due to blockage of channels with Ama.

Once we have stopped the production of the Ama and have removed the toxins from the body- we need to work on the samanya gati of the Vata dosha.

Therefore we give particular medicines, which helps a patient to get back the wellness of the joints.

Process of Ayurveda Treatment for Rheumatoid Arthritis

To start the treatment you need to fill the form first of all. And we will need the following reports from your side-

1. CBC (Complete Blood Count)
2. ESR
3. C Reactive Protein
4. RA Factor (Quantitative)
5. Liver Function Test

These reports should not be older than 2 months, from the date of consultation.

Once you have shared all the details with us, our team will guide you for the available slots for Video Consultation. So that you can consult with Vaidya Pardeep about all your problems.

If your case will be like- solving with medicines. Vaidya Ji will guide you accordingly and if there will be some requirement of Panchakarma- you will be updated about that.

Therefore all the treatment processes will be according to your requirement. There are only a few cases who need to come and admit with us for Intensive Panchakarma Care. So you need not worry about all this.

The total duration of the Ayurveda treatment for rheumatoid arthritis depends on the condition of the patient and severity of the case. There are certain cases, which need only 5 to 6 months of treatment. But in certain cases, it might take as long as 18 months. So there is no rule of the days and timeline.

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