RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS

What is Rheumatoid Arthritis?

Rheumatoid arthritis, or RA, is an autoimmune and chronic inflammatory disorder, that can affect more than just your joints. In some people, the condition can damage a wide variety of body systems, including the skin, eyes, lungs, heart and blood vessels. 

RA affects joints on both sides of the body, such as both hands, both wrists, or both knees. This symmetry helps to set it apart from other types of arthritis. 

More women than men get rheumatoid arthritis. It often starts in middle age and is most common in older people. You might have the disease for only a short time, or symptoms might come and go. The severe form can last a lifetime.

Rheumatoid arthritis is different from osteoarthritis.

Causes

RA is the result of an immune response in which the body’s immune system attacks its own healthy cells.  The specific causes of RA are unknown, but some factors can increase the risk of developing the disease.

Normally, your immune system helps protect your body from infection and disease. In rheumatoid arthritis, your immune system attacks healthy tissue in your joints. It can also cause medical problems with your heart, lungs, nerves, eyes and skin.

Symptoms

With RA, there are times when symptoms get worse, known as flares, and times when symptoms get better, known as remission.

Signs and symptoms of RA include:

• Pain or aching in more than one joint

• Stiffness in more than one joint

• Tenderness and swelling in more than one joint

• The same symptoms on both sides of the body (such as in both hands or both knees)

• Weight loss

• Fever

• Fatigue or tiredness

• Weakness

About 40% of people who have rheumatoid arthritis also experience signs and symptoms that don't involve the joints. Areas that may be affected include:

• Skin

• Eyes

• Lungs

• Heart

• Kidneys

• Salivary glands

• Nerve tissue

• Bone marrow

• Blood vessels

Rheumatoid arthritis signs and symptoms may vary in severity and may even come and go. Periods of increased disease activity, called flares, alternate with periods of relative remission — when the swelling and pain fade or disappear. Over time, rheumatoid arthritis can cause joints to deform and shift out of place.

Homoeopathic treatment for rheumatoid arthritis

Homoeopathy is the system which works on “individualization”. Homoeopathy treats the man as a whole, which ultimately results into removing of disease & it’s symptoms. Homoeopathic medicine does not suppress the disease, it enhances the immune system of the patient. Homoeopathy treats the RA from the root cause & helps to prevent it from recurring. RA is not just a superficial disorder of joints, it involves the immune system as well, homoeopathy has the power to treat it. Homoeopathic medicine does not contain steroids, antibiotics or any anti-inflammatory medications.

Brahma Madhurya Homoeopathy goals to treat RA as follows:

• removes swelling & tenderness of the joints

• removes pain from the muscles

• treats the underlying cause

• improves the immunity

• prevent from the recurrence of the disease

• improves general health

• removes associated symptoms with the disease

• Medicines selected here will not have any side-effects

• These medicines do not consist of steroids or anti-inflammatory drugs.

• These medicines help you to overcome RA from its root cause.

• These medicines are deep acting so it also helps in control the further degeneration of the disease.