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• 09-08-2023

Natural Ways to Treat Arthritis

Arthritis causes pain and swelling in joints. If this pain sustains for longer, it leads to deteriorating conditions. The pain caused by Arthritis is unbearable and torturing. It can worsen with time and can lead to chronic problems. Most people don’t take their joint pain seriously in the early stage, and then it gets the shape of Arthritis with old age.

But if you have Arthritis, it doesn’t mean that you can’t control it. Ayurvedic treatment can help improve a patient’s condition and lead a pain-free life.

NATURAL WAYS TO TREAT ARTHRITIS

• Exercise

Gentle exercise moves can help you improve your joint pain. Low impact exercises like cycling, walking, jogging, and high knees walking, forward folds, knee pilling, extended leg balance, and cobras at a point prove to be best for Arthritis patients. You don’t need to exercise for long hours, so you feel fatigued and lose your energy, but a small amount of exercise is beneficial.

• Massage

Massage also proves to be the best treatment for Arthritis. Massage lessens the stiffness in bones, making them free to move and improving the functions of joints. It is also proven that massage enhances serotonin’s mood-lifting hormones, lowers cortisol levels, and balances blood pressures. You can learn some simple techniques for self-massage from various online tutorials that teach you to massage your joints like knees, neck, jaws, hands, and feet.

• Gradual stretching and muscles relaxation

Start the stretching process gradually and slowly. Never be in a rush; go steady and slow. For this

• Breathe In and Out as you contract and expand your muscles

• Reduce your sugar intake

Avoid eating inflammatory foods. Sugar is one of the inflammatory foods present in most meals. It’s advisable to reduce the use of sugar as much as possible. Foods containing large amounts of sugar are white bread, juices, soda, cookies and cakes, ice cream, and candies. In comparison, naturally occurring sugar foods are totally fine for eating, like fruits and vegetables.

• Hot and cold treatment

Hot and cold treatment with the help of a water bottle also proves to relieve the pain caused by arthritis. Hot treatment will help expand muscles, whereas cold therapy will help them contract. You can do both to check which treatment suits you best. And later on, go with the one that worked for you.

• Acupuncture

Acupuncture can be of great help in Arthritis, only in initial stages. If some severe damages are already done to the joints, it will not help much, but it can help manage the pain. It can help in the early and mid-stages, whether inflammatory or autoimmune. It is a Chinese technique in which a well-practised practitioner uses stainless-steel needles, inserts them at a specific place, and puts them for nearly 20 minutes, which helps relieve intense pain.

• Turmeric

Turmeric is the main spice that is used mainly in Indian Cuisines. It also has one essential property, and that is anti-inflammatory action. You can have turmeric in milk daily, which will reduce your arthritis pain.

• Yoga and meditation

Yoga helps in developing flexibility in your body. Various yoga asanas will work as pain relievers; you can try them at home at your convenience. Meditation is a method for feeling relaxed and free from pain. Mediate in peace and feel each body part by reducing your stress, ultimately reducing your joint inflammation.

• Vitamin D

Vitamin D is the most important vitamin that is essential for our bones. Our bones and joints are strengthened and maintain the functions of the immune system with vitamin D. We can take vitamin D supplements in our diet. The best and easy vitamin D source for all of us is Sun, so go out and take solar energy to make your bones strong.

• Omega-3 fatty acids

Studies have shown that Omega-3 fatty acids are best to reduce the inflammation and stiffness of bones and improve the functioning of the immune system. The best source of the Omega- 3 fatty acids are cold-water fishes like tuna, salmon, and sardines. Other naturally occurring foods having Omega-3 fatty acids are seeds of nuts, plant oil from flax seeds, fortified foods like eggs and yoghurts.

• Cannabidiol Products

Cannabidiol products are made from cannabis, a hemp plant, helping people reduce pain and chronic arthritis. Cannabidiol is present in many forms, like capsules, edibles, oral tinctures, topical creams, and gels.

• Lifestyle and self-care routines

Doctors and researchers say that self-management and self-control are essential for treating any disease. If you are not willing to change your daily habits, no one can help you get better. Only you know your condition better, learn more about it. Try to find your treatment options, discuss them with your health care personnel. Take an active part in controlling and managing your pain and take care of your nutrition and diet.

• Don’t let stress have control over you.

When you go through the pain and start avoiding things that make you feel good, you start making things worse for yourself. Don’t do this, don’t let the fear of pain pull you back from feeling that you are best; try to keep checking your stress level from time to time and go for a more easy approach toward life. There is no sense in making yourself feel worse for the pain in your control. Some times pain you are feeling is not that painful, but you feel it more by taking extra stress over it.

• Take enough rest

Don’t push yourself more and more; whenever you feel like sleeping, go and sleep. Develop a regular sleeping habit on time and take enough rest when your pain is worse. Try to know your body limits, don’t push yourself to go past them. If you have people around and you feel like going away for some peace, say that you cannot stay and it’s time for you to go away; they will understand your situation. Handle your social plans without any guilt inside you.

• Avoid alcohol and add herbal supplements to your diet.

Alcohol can cause more inflammation that can worsen your condition, so try to avoid its intake as much as possible. In addition, you can add some herbs to your diet that will help to reduce inflammation. These herbs are Aloe vera, Boswellia, cat’s claw(tropical vine from South and Central America), Eucalyptus, Ginger, Green Tea, Thunder god vine, and willow bark.

• Leave the work for the next day.

It might happen that you set some task for the present day, and you might not finish it the same day. Don’t exert extra pressure to complete it on the same day as before; you used to do it quickly. Take a break and get things done with ease.

Neeraj Clinic provides combination therapy that includes Ayurvedic medicines, exercise, and panchakarma to treat arthritis. If you are looking for a natural treatment for arthritis, get in touch with us!