JSS Ayurveda Medical College, Mysore

Rheumatoid Arthritis is a connective tissue disorder. Patients experience swelling, pain and morning stiffness of multiple joints involving even smaller joints with symmetrical distribution. Most of the patients will have relentless progressive poly arthritis with multiple joint deformities and marked functional impairment. Some patients will have active stage of disease with fever, joint pain and swelling. Some will present with joint swelling and pain with no fever. Some other patients present with minimum swelling and pain but with maximum deformities.

Ayurveda explains it as Amavatha. Panchakarma therapies and oral medicines vary based on the nature of illness. Classical Ayurvedic treatment of Amavatha definitely arrests the progression of the illness with optimal improvement in the features. Many have already benefited from the treatment at JSS Ayurveda Hospital.

Panchkarma is one of the purification therapies of Ayurveda. “Panch” means Five and “Karma” means Actions. Simply translated, panchakarma is a set of five systematic actions used for the purification of the body. Under Panchakarma therapy, the toxins are eliminated through the process of Vamana (emesis), Virechana (purgation), Basti (enema), Nasya (nasal therapy) and Raktamokshana (letting out the infected blood).

Our body is regularly invaded by many toxic elements through various ways and means. They disturb the balance of Doshas (physiological healthy factors) and aggravate them resulting in diseases. In conventional methods of treatment with medicines, treatment is given to treat pathology. The toxins remain dormant and seem to subside, but they reappear again. Thus, the root causes remain hidden. The treatment remains incomplete unless the root causes are eliminated. Panchakarma is considered to be the most radical way to cleanse the body thereby permanently eliminate all the disease causing doshas and the toxins.