Gout - Symptoms, Diagnosis and Treatment

Gout is a type of arthritis which can cause extreme pain, swelling, warmth and redness. Gout makes problems on especially toe joint, and other joints in the foot as well as the knee, elbow, wrist and fingertips. Gout symptoms can also occur suddenly and without warning, often flaring up in the middle of the night.

The exact cause of gout is not completely identified even by experts. But the risk factors, diagnosis and treatment for gout are well known and established.

What is Gout?

Gout results from a build-up of uric acid crystals which are collect in the soft tissue of joint. That cause pain, swelling, redness and warmth.

Ayurvedic View

In Ayurveda, gout is known as vatrakt, as the main dosha involved is vata and it affects rakt dhatu. Vitiation (impairment) of vata dosha and rakt dhatu is caused by increased intake of spicy, sour, salty, alkaline, heavy and penetrating foods. The impaired doshas travel through the channels of the body and get accumulated at the smaller joints causing damage to the tissues and bones of the joint resulting in vatrakt.

Excessive anger, waking up late in the night, sleeping in the daytime, excessive traveling, trauma, overindulgence in physical exercises, excessive sexual activity and suppressing the natural urges of the body can also lead to gout. Ayurvedic treatments emphasize herbal preparations, diet and routines that help to cleanse the blood.

We, Agasthya Ayurvedic Medical Center - famous ayurveda treatment center in kerala is well known for gout treatment. There are many success stories for patients who had gout and other problems such as back pain, knee pain, all joint pains.

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Battling Arthritis with the Help of Ayurveda

Arthritis is one of the most common ailment for which Ayurvedic help is being sought these days.
Home remedies and a healthy diet has gained popularity over a few years now. More patients are opting for ayurveda over allopathy to control and cure arthritis, which has zero side-effects.

Agasthya Ayurvedic Medical Centre gets many arthritis patients every year. The treatment is a combination of oral medication, panchkarma treatment and diet and lifestyle changes.
Ayurvedic medicines do not have side-effects like allopathic steroids and painkillers do. After treatment for arthritis, a patient is put on oral medication, oil massage and panchkarma. We also suggest some alteration in diet and lifestyle.

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Natural Ways to Get Rid of Paralysis

Paralysis may be localized, or generalized, or it may follow a certain pattern. For example, localized paralysis occurs in one side of the face may be paralyzed due to inflammation of the facial nerve on that side. Patients with stroke may be weak throughout their body or have Hemiplegia - weakness on one side of the body - or other patterns of paralysis depending on the area of damage in the brain. For example, lower spinal cord damage from a severe back injury may result in Paraplegia. Patients with paraplegia or quadriplegia often use equipment such as a wheelchair or standing frame for mobility and to regain some independence.

SYMPTOMS: The Symptoms often accompany Paralysis from any cause include: Numbness and Tingling, pain, Changes in Vision, Difficulties with Speech, or Problems with Balance. Spinal cord Injury often causes Loss of Function in the Bladder, Bowel, and Sexual Organs. High Spinal cord Injuries may cause difficulties in Breathing.

According to Ayurveda, Paralysis is compared with PAKSHAGHATA. It has been discussed in Vata Vyadhi Prakaranam. It is known to be a complicated, as Pranayathana & Marma are involved. Vata involvement is a major factor for its complications. 

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Ayurvedic Sports Medicines in Kerala

Sports medicine is an interdisciplinary subspecialty of medicine which deals with the overall care of an athlete at all levels, both amateur and professional. The sports medical team includes specialty physicians and surgeons, athletic trainers, physical therapists, coaches, other personnel and, of course, the athlete. Ayurveda is the traditional medical system of India that is primarily a health care system aimed at prevention and cure of illness.  

Kerala Government has worked out a scheme to explore the potential of Ayruveda and other indigenous healing systems as sports medicine. A special wing called Sports Ayurveda has been formed by the Department of Indian Systems of Medicines and Homoeopathy, a unit of the Ministry of Health and Child Welfare. The Sports Ayurveda wing has been formed to treat the ailments of athletes. With the Commonwealth Games and National Games approaching, the Sports Ayurveda wing is all geared up to face and heal sports-related injuries. Massage therapy also developed over centuries in Kerala as part of its martial art-cum-healing system.

Sports injuries are injuries that occur to athletes participating in sporting events. In many cases, these types of injuries are due to overuse of a part of the body when participating in a certain activity. Sports injuries require special care while treatments. Modern treatment methods might require that surgeries be carried out, which shall prevent the sports person from actively pursuing the sport or require use of drugs which can get the athletes banned.

Ayurveda and Sports Medicine

Sports medicine, as a separate medical specialty has a fairly recent origin and it is quite pertinent to ask how a medical system, that is more than five thousand years old, can  make any contribution in a field like sports medicine which, by any stretch of imagination, is not more than a few decades old.  

When we go through the Ayurvedic belief we definitely do not find direct references regarding a specialty called sports medicine nor do we have ready made management plans for sports related ailments. It requires a lot of close observation and correct perception of the implied meaning of the ancient words of wisdom to appreciate the scope of Ayurveda in this field. Hence a blind critique can easily shut the doors on any exploration on the topic concluding that Ayurveda has nothing to do with sports medicine. But when we observe with the open mind of a curious scientist, we find enormous possibilities. It makes us appreciate a very significant contribution that Ayurveda can make to improve the effectiveness of sports medicine as a whole. If a systematic and dedicated research happens in this direction, Ayurveda could revolutionize and contribute a great deal to the sports medicine.

                             
        

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