Knee pain and burning+paining toes

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Friends,

I have a couple of queries; I wonder if someone in the

group can help:

1. My daughter, 34 years, has extreme pain in her

knees. Flexing them becomes very painful. She is

taking Shallaki, using Eladi oil for massage but there

seems little improvement. What would someone advise?

2. I have an old (4years) complaint of my toes burning

and paining excrutiatingly after about half hour of

walking. I've tried loosing weight, various oils,

changing footwear etc. but nothing seems to cure it.

Kindly help.

Thank you

Sudha

 

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--- sudha anand <sudha2710> wrote:

 

> 1. My daughter, 34 years, has extreme pain in her

> knees. Flexing them becomes very painful. She is

> taking Shallaki, using Eladi oil for massage but there

> seems little improvement. What would someone advise?

 

Pain with stiffness is rheumatism. following is a general description

of possibilities of treatment. Diverse remedies suggested, follow

what you can and reflect your experience to group so that we also

sharpen our tools. IN a remote guidance of this nature, only this

much can be expected. Being a common ailment these days, you will

have multitude of recommendations from various members. Author

suggests that visiting a nearby ayurvedic practitioner will be the

best advise for you.

 

Athritis is a curse of materialism race, sedantary life style out-of-

tune with nature, waist height cooking platforms and lack of

yoga/meditation etc in modern days. We get cases aged 28-30 years

also these days, and hormone imbalance causing inadequate blood

circulation is one prominent reason. The root of this can also be

birth (delivery), after which post partum anti-vata treatment is not

done properly.

 

Early diagnosis of Arthritis and Rheumatism prevents possibility of

physical disability later. These ailments can occur at early age,

say in children aged even six months. The first sign of these

ailments is the swelling in the neighbourhood of neck area or ankle

bone or fingures. Though there are many types of arthritis, they are

not hereditary.

 

The objective of the treatment is to reduce pain, increase mobility

of the joint, avoid disability of the joint. Women suffer more from

Rheumatism while men suffer fore from Gout. Though modern science

tries to treat arthritis by fomentation, surgery and drug therapy.

Surgery is preferred over drugs for obviopus reasons. Todays patient

wants to get rid of ailment at earliest, no matter at what cost. The

pain killer injections given in the joints have only limited

influence for 2-4 weeks and need to be taken again, slowly developing

drug tolerance.

 

According to some practitioners, arthritis can be managed by balanced

diet, some exercise, management of posture and pain management drugs.

However, patients are reluctant to walk due to aggravating pain.

 

Let us consider arthritis from ayurvedic perspective.

 

The presence of this ailment is indicated by:

· Severe pain in the affected joints.

· Muscles, ligaments and cartilage become inflamed.

· Movement of the joint becomes extremely painful, especially

in cold, windy and damp weather.

It is notable that if this disease is not taken care of properly at

the initial stages the joint becomes immobile and may also become

permanently deformed.

 

Causes

This ailment is caused due to the aggravation of Vata (air) dosha and

accumulation of Ama (toxins). Ama gets deposited in the weak areas of

the body, joints with a simultaneous aggravation of Vata that is

known as Ama Vata (arthritis).

 

Weak digestion, constipation, overeating and very little physical

activity are the symptoms that can develop in a patient of arthritis.

 

Remedies

Ama must be digested and Vata reduced in the body.

Digestion should be improved and fasting for one day is

beneficial for digesting Ama.

Two teaspoons of lemon juice and a teaspoon of honey mixed in

a cup of warm water is good for curing arthritis, take twice a day.

Bake one or two green colored brinjals. Mash and fry in

about 2 tablespoons of castor oil. Spices like cumin, coriander,

turmeric, garlic and salt can be added while frying. Once daily for 2-

3 months. Another alternative is to take ½ tsp ginger powder, ½ tsp

giloy powder, cook it with 2 cups of water on slow heat till 1/2 cup

remains. Mix in 2 tbsp castor oil and stirr well. Drink once a day.

Castor oil quantity should be 1 tsp in the beginning and gradually

increase to 2 tbsp (30 ml) as body is able to digest without more

than 2 motions a day.

 

Half a teaspoon of turmeric powder with warm water, twice a

day helps cure arthritis.

 

One raw clove of garlic every day is very beneficial. This

clove can be fried in ghee (clarified butter) or castor oil. Once

daily for 2-3 months.

 

Guggulu (a herb) is very helpful in curing arthritis. If

available, eat half a teaspoon twice a day after meals with warm

water. A variety of guggula tablets [Yogaraj, Mahayogaraj, Kaishor,

Goxuraddi, Panchtikta, Trayodashang, Sinhnad, Punarnavadi, Bhallatak,

etc] can be prescribed to a patient, but which one depends on pulse

diagnosis. Paste of 1 teaspoon red chilies and fresh ginger mixed in

half a cup of sesame oil and strain. Gently rub this oil on the

affected joints. ·Camphor, wintergreen and cinnamon oils are also

beneficial for external application. Mahanarayan oil, Mahavishgarbh

Oil, Vatnashak Tel made from sesame oil, ginger powder, turmeric

powder, garlic, etc is also found useful for osteo arthritis.

Author has a powder, very inexpensive, which can be turned

into paste by addition of water and paste externally applied on

inflamed joint for an hour. Helps in reducing swelling and pain in

rheumatoid arthritis, but requires at least two months of daily

application. Powder can not be exported.

Other than castor oil, another enemy of Aamvata is gold.

Several tablets using gold are now available in Indian market, which

give relatively fast relief from pain, but not like pain killers.

Rheumaraj, Rheumanil, Rheumasil etc are brandnames. Cost of these

tablets is rather high, beyond reach of Indian middle class.

Those who are in Mumbai can approach arthritis camp in Shree

Krishna Haveli, Vashi, Navi Mumbai, for a special belt for knee,

waist which helps reduce swelling and pain.

Cow is a holy mother for Hindus. A variety of PanchGavya

medicines are available in Northern parts of India (Punjab, Haryana,

M.P., U.P.). More details of these can be obtained from nearest

Goushala/PanchGavya medicine unit in neighbourhood.

 

Following is the diet suggested for the patients suffering form

arthritis:

Vegetable juices and soups

Coconut water

Coconut milk

Carrot juice

Beet root juice

Cucumber juice

Cooked vegetables like squash, zucchini and pumpkin

Spices like cumin, coriander, ginger, asafetida, garlic,

fennel and turmeric. Green salad with a dressing of lemon juice and a

little salt

Khichadi (recipe made by cooking rice and mung dal )

Regular physical exercise which body can tolerate without

pain and and massage with oil should form an important part

of the routine.

 

The patient of arthritis must avoid the following:

Eating hot, spicy and fried foods, sweets, wind forming foods

like cabbage, Cauliflower, spinach, and potatoes. Potatoes,

if cooked with skin, become less dangerous.

Too much tea, coffee, alcohol, white sugar, yoghurt

(curd/buttermilk during night), chocolate, cocoa.

Antibiotics, painkillers, steroids and nicotine

Sleeping during the day

Staying up late at night

Mental tensions like worry, anxiety.

 

Too many medicines, too many recommendations. Follow as much as you

can. A simple but tough routine, proposed by a Jain monk and tried

out by the author on only one patient so far, will be covered next

week. Being tough, no patient is willing generally.

 

> 2. I have an old (4years) complaint of my toes burning

> and paining excrutiatingly after about half hour of

> walking. I've tried loosing weight, various oils,

> changing footwear etc. but nothing seems to cure it.

> Kindly help.

 

Though appearance of Gout like symptoms in women is less common,

this indicates two possibilities. Lack of blood circulation (modern

science has names such as fibromialgia, atherosclerosis etc) is the

main cause. Have you checked blood sugar; often for diabetics, this

type of pain or numbness in toes is also encountered. Take hot water,

add 2-3 tbsp sea salt. dip lower legs (knee downward) in the bucket

for 15-20 minutes. You can also try 2 tabs of Hridayarnav Ras (Many

pharmacies make this Tablet), and two tabs of Kaishor Guggulu, slight

chew and swallow with warm water after lunch as well as dinner.

Ashokarishtam 3 tsp (15 ml) with equal water mixed can also be taken

after food.

 

Rub lower side of toes with pumice tone at bath time, at the time

when there is no pain. Use of a mixture of Aswagandha tailam and

Jatyadi Tailam for 5 minute massage of lower side of feet is found

helpful. Sometimes there can be a local clot/benign tumor pressing on the

arteries supplying blood to toes area. If such a possibility, there exist

ayurvedic remedies.

 

Dr Bhate

[Guest guest]

I have a 17 year old daughter who also has knee problem who was taken

from her mother not vaganally but through her stomach. She is

consantlly in pain, she does not want to continue yoga because she is

in pain after we are through with the class. I also take her for

massage work, Heller massage, which when done she feels alittle

relief. She eats little meat, chicken, and rarely fish, and her

period is usally at the start very painful. I sthis the same as the

first message and should she follow the same course of healing?

Respectfully,

Jim