HETU AND SAMPRAPTI OF AMAVATA (RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS) - A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW
Dr. Savitri Soni*
ABSTRACT
According to ayurveda concept, the inequity of basic constituents causes different diseases. The balance of different fundamental elements in the body (sharir) is the sign of good health. Ayurvedic remedies are found very effective and useful to sustain the equilibrium. Amavata, vatarakta, sandhivata, etc are few vata related diseases. Among these amavata is a chronic joint and body pain disease accompanied by a swelling of some or all of the synovial joints which involve ama and vata. It is a disease of madhyam roga marga as it affects sandhi and hridaya marma. The present life style not only disturb the healthy ahar (diet) but vihar (daily exercise etc.) also. Whenever the function of agni is disturbed in the body, ama is produced. Such produced ama is slimy in nature, this ama gets together with dushit vata / prakopit vata and circulates all over the body through shira and dhamani and gets stuck in kaphasthana i.e. sandhi because shleshak kapha is located in sandhi and amavata is developed resulting patient suffer from lifelong joint deformities and acute condition.
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