Gout
Explanation
One of the most painful metabolic diseases caused at the joint cartilages due to the inflammation and deposition of uric acid in it. This is Gout. This usually affects the big toe firstly, making it swell and painful. In the later stages, the pain starts growing from ankles, knees and other joints of the body to wrists and elbow.
Reasons/Causes
Human body produces certain chemicals known as purines when the body breaks down. Purines are responsible in creating uric acid. These chemicals are found in many body parts as well as in food channels. Sometimes, the uric acid is produced excessively or even when it is produced less, this is the time when the accumulations of sharp, needle like forms in the body. If the above accumulation is in the joints or nearby tissues, the swelling up of joints occur. This causes the painful, inflamed sensation in the body.
Signs/Symptoms
Gout as per Ayurvedic Concept
In the science of Ayurveda, Gout is also called as vatarakht. The name is so because Vata (air) affects rakhtadu and since Vata here is vitiated, vata doshas arise. This dosha is created due to poor food condition and consuming spicy, alkaline, heavy, oily foods at an excess level. The vitiated doshas, thus moves to all other parts of the body and damages the joints and tissues and thus results in gout.
Other factors like lack of sleep, trauma, too much traveling, over excessive sexual activities, indulging in excessively in physical exercises, suppressing natural calls and urges , sleeping during the day time are few other factors that lead to formation of Gout. Herbal diet and lifestyle medicates the health and purifies blood.
Lifestyle Guide & Recommended Diet
Homemade Therapies
One of the most painful metabolic diseases caused at the joint cartilages due to the inflammation and deposition of uric acid in it. This is Gout. This usually affects the big toe firstly, making it swell and painful. In the later stages, the pain starts growing from ankles, knees and other joints of the body to wrists and elbow.
Reasons/Causes
Human body produces certain chemicals known as purines when the body breaks down. Purines are responsible in creating uric acid. These chemicals are found in many body parts as well as in food channels. Sometimes, the uric acid is produced excessively or even when it is produced less, this is the time when the accumulations of sharp, needle like forms in the body. If the above accumulation is in the joints or nearby tissues, the swelling up of joints occur. This causes the painful, inflamed sensation in the body.
Signs/Symptoms
- Thirst and fever comes along with pain
- Pain can be felt during nighttime
- Joints get red, swollen and tender
- Sensation of itching and burning can be felt
- Skin color change accompanied with itching can be sensed
- Redness, Swelling, and pain can be felt at some joints as well.
Gout as per Ayurvedic Concept
In the science of Ayurveda, Gout is also called as vatarakht. The name is so because Vata (air) affects rakhtadu and since Vata here is vitiated, vata doshas arise. This dosha is created due to poor food condition and consuming spicy, alkaline, heavy, oily foods at an excess level. The vitiated doshas, thus moves to all other parts of the body and damages the joints and tissues and thus results in gout.
Other factors like lack of sleep, trauma, too much traveling, over excessive sexual activities, indulging in excessively in physical exercises, suppressing natural calls and urges , sleeping during the day time are few other factors that lead to formation of Gout. Herbal diet and lifestyle medicates the health and purifies blood.
Lifestyle Guide & Recommended Diet
- Don’t consume alcoholic, meat, sour, fried foods, pungent foods, and tobacco products.
- Have fresh, green, and boiled vegetables, and those vegetables that promote easy digestion. Boiled vegetables are god alternatives.
- Consume about 10 glasses of water daily for healthy lifestyle and purify the blood cells
- Keep the body warm. Avoid places, which are damp and cold.
- Take lukewarm sesame oil and apply them in joints for about half an hour daily
- Have plenty of seasonal fruits except banana and healthy cereals, wholegrain breads
- Consume fennel, cinnamon, ginger, coriander, garlic, cumin, garlic at a higher amount.
- Don’t consume too many dairy products particularly yoghurt
- Perform simple exercises.
Homemade Therapies
- Take about 4 tablespoon and boil it along with 10 petals of rose until a lotion gets to be developed. Apply this lotion in painful joints.
- Consume 2-3 garlic cloves with water in empty stomach every morning.
- Mix 2 gm of amla powder, 0.5 gm of dry ginger powder and mix it with 0.2gms of giloy stem powder about 2 gms. Mix it with honey and lick it twice a day.
