A REVIEW OF RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS AND MEDICINES IN SIDDHA SYSTEM
Lakshmi Kantham T.,* Ganapathy G., Geetha A. and Banumathi V.
ABSTRACT
Siddha system is treasure houses of several medicines for innumerable diseases need to be scientifically validated. The saint Yugi classified different types of neuro musculo skeletal diseases under 80 types of Vatha diseases in his text YugiVaithiyacinthamani. UthiraVathasuronitham is one among them. The signs and symptoms of UthiraVathasuronitham may be correlated with that of Rheumatoid Arthritis in modern science. This paper deals with single herb therapy and poly Siddha herbo-mineral formulations have been mentioned in siddha literature. This will be favourable to the Rheumatology associations and researchers worldwide to choose siddha system of medicine for the treatment of RA as an alternate to the other systems of medicine.
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