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ગુજરાતી: આમવાત – રુમેટોઇડ આર્થરાઇટીસ માટે આહારનું પથ્યપાલન
हिंदी: आमवात – रूमेटाइड आर्थराइटिस के लिए आहार-विहार (पथ्य पालन)
(Medicines alone do not cure a disease; only when they are combined with strict dietary discipline can the disease be removed from its root.)
Diet (Ahara)
- Do not eat stale food.
- Avoid refined flour (maida) products – bread, biscuits, pav and other bakery items.
- Avoid pickles and all fermented foods such as khaman, dhokla, handvo, idli and dosa.
- Stop all sour items – curd, buttermilk, lemon, tomato, tamarind, kokum, etc.
- Do not sleep during the day.
- Sleep away from the direct breeze of a fan.
How to Boil Drinking Water
- Take double the amount of water you need from morning to evening and boil it in an open vessel until half of it evaporates. Cool it and use it for drinking. Add a small piece of dry ginger (sunth) while boiling. In the evening, boil fresh water again for the night in the same way. Never drink stale water.
- Use of honey: Mix two large spoons of pure honey in half a glass of plain water and keep it ready in the evening. (Never add honey to hot water. Lemon does not reduce weight; on the contrary it increases joint pain.)
- Curd increases weight and blocks all the channels of the body, so it causes most diseases – stay away from it.
- Milk with any fruit, curd, buttermilk, garlic, onion, radish, jaggery or any sour item is an incompatible food (viruddha ahara). Curd with jaggery or radish is also incompatible.
Lifestyle (Vihara)
- Do not sleep in the daytime, and wake up before sunrise.
- Do not do any oil massage or apply any ointment. Instead, give dry heat fomentation twice a day, morning and evening, with a cloth, hot-water bag, hot sand pouch or electric heating pad.
- The medicines given here do not interfere with any other medicine, so you do not need to stop them if you have to take some other treatment.
- Take the medicines regularly without missing a single day.
- Do not lie down right after a meal; walk a hundred steps and, if possible, sit in Vajrasana for five minutes.
- None of the given medicines is heating, so they can be taken before or after meals. Only the digestive medicine marked so should be taken after meals.
- Stop all fruits.
- Do not take jaggery.
- Avoid chocolates, biscuits and sweets.
- Eat more brinjal, fenugreek, drumstick and garlic.
- Stop all pulses except green gram (moong).
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) – Amavata Diet
Why is diet control necessary in Amavata (rheumatoid arthritis)?
In Amavata the disease is not cured by medicines alone; it can be removed from its root only by strictly following the right diet and lifestyle (pathya).
Which foods should be avoided in Amavata?
Stale food, refined flour products (bread, biscuits), pickles and fermented foods (khaman, dhokla, idli, dosa), and sour items such as curd, buttermilk, lemon, tomato and tamarind should be avoided completely.
How should drinking water be boiled in Amavata?
Take double the water you need, add a piece of dry ginger, boil it in an open vessel until half remains, then cool it and use it for drinking.
Why should pulses be avoided in Amavata?
All pulses are considered to increase Vata, and increased Vata worsens joint pain and swelling in Amavata, so stopping pulses (except moong) is advised.
In which other diseases is this diet useful?
This diet is useful in rheumatoid arthritis, joint pain, gout, sciatica and all other types of joint disorders.
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