Amavat or rhumatoid arthritis in ayurvedic view

Amavat Ayurveda describes many diseases regarding dosh dushti or vitiation of doshas invovlving joints. Amavat is one very much troublesome among these  joint diseases. Not only it is painful but in long term it disables the patient.

The difference among other joint ailments and  amavat is that it involves ama meaning undigested food which circulates in body through blood. This ama can create many diseases and when in joints it causes amavat.

signs and symptoms according to ayurveda: Unlike osteoarthritis which is confined  to a particular joint it affects many joints.

Lazziness, general body ache, fever,  loss of appetite, dis taste, heaviness in the body,  pain in joints of neck, back, low back, knee along with oedema in these joints.  Joints affected may be one or many. In amavat affected  joints keep on changing from one joint to another.

In later stages there is stiffness followed by deformities in the joints. Smaller joint deformity is common as in hand fingers and wrist.

Digestion is badly affected. Small amount of food may remain undigested in the stomach causing vomitting, disuturbance in stomach, pain in abdomen etc.

Patient urinates frequently, cannot sleep well,  loss of willingness to work, vertigo In addition disturbance of sleep, heaviness in chest,  fainting may be observed. In pitt vitiation you may find burning sensation in the joint In kafa vitiation heaviness and itching may prevail. Amavat once diagnosed first thing patient should do is Regulate and minimize his diet as digestionis low. Please read all comments below as I have posted new cases in comments. See also Rhumatic heart disease case in comments. Go through a new post for a case of R A cured well at our clinic : a post on 28 June 2012.