Ayurveda #2: Backache

Backache:
Backache is one of the most common affliction, to which hardly any lady is an exception. This is the most agonising and incapacitating physical disorders which owes its origin to multiple physical factors. It is merely a symptom and not a disease whose cause lies elsewhere in the body. Spine is the longest column in the body that is comprised of - Cervical Vertebrae, Thoracic Vertebrae or Dorsal Vertibral, Lumbar Vertebrae, Sacrum and Coccyx or tail bore. In backache, only lumbar portion is affected, though pains may radiate to sacrum and coccyx also.

Symptoms:

1. Constant pain, at times unbearable and severe.
2. Difficulty in bending forward and also on sideways.
3. Aggravation of pain by least movement, jerk. Feeling as if entire area is sore and sensitive to even slight touch.
4. Relief is felt by gentle massage.
5. Incapacitation.
6. Feeling as if the back muscles were bound and tightened by a blinder.

Root Causes:

1. Spinal Arthritis, Rheumatoid or Ankeylosing Spondylitis.
2. Curvature of spine.
3. Presence of tumours in the spine.
4. Some chronic infection.
5. Injury to spine or abnormal stress caused by lifting any heavy object.
6. Poor circulation of blood.
7. Sitting in a particular position at a stretch, but more so when one is obliged to perform some job where bending of back becomes a necessity.

Healing Options:
Herbs
Lahsun (Garlic)
Lemon
Vitamin C
Potato

Ayurvedic Supplements:
Mahayograj Guggulu
Vatgajankush Ras
Rhumartho Gold
Rhuma Oil

Diet:
The diet of those suffering from backache should consist of a salad of raw vegetable such as tomato, carrot, cabbage, cucumber, radish, lettuce, and at least two steamed or lightly cooked vegetables such as cauliflower, cabbage, spinach, carrot and plenty of fruits except bananas. The patients should avoid fatty, spicy, and fried foods, curd, sweetmeats and sugar, condiments, tea and coffee. Foods that have been processed for preservation have few nutrients and should also be eliminated from the diet

Lifestyle:
Smoking or taking tobacco in any from should be given up completely. Hot formentation, alternate sponging, or application of heat to the back will also give immediate relief

Yoga:
Bhujangasa.
Shalabhasana
Halasana
Savasanaa
Psychological upsets.

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Thank you,
Shreyas