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Traditional Methods of Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis
Farjad Afzal1* and Asma Afzal2
1Department of Physical Therapy, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, Sargodha Medical College, University of Sargodha, Punjab, Pakistan
2Medical Lab Technologist, Graduated from Institute of Allied Health, The Children Hospital, Affiliated with University of Healthy Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan
- *Corresponding Author:
- Farjad Afzal
Department of Physical Therapy
Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, Sargodha Medical College
University of Sargodha, Punjab, Pakistan
E-mail: afzalfarjad@gmail.com
Received date: August 17, 2017; Accepted date: September 09, 2017; Published date: September 13, 2017
Citation: Afzal F, Afzal A (2017) Traditional Methods of Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis. J Tradit Med Clin Natur 6:242.
Copyright: © 2017 Afzal F, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Traditional medicine is getting popularity in current practice of all fields of medicine. Concept of organic food is also reemerging in world. Due to resistance against the common antibiotic, researchers are working more on traditional method of treatments. Rheumatoid arthritis is treated with NSAIDs, steroids and DMRDs. It is estimated that 60 to 90 percent people use alternative method of treatment for the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis like pain and stiffness. Physiotherapy, Herbal medicine and chiropractic are very popular. Borage seed oil (borago officinalis), capsaicin, curcumin (diferuloyl methane), feverfew (Tanacetum parthenium), Flaxseed oil, H15 (extract of Boswellia serrata, olibanum), RA1 (standardized Ayurvedic formulation) and Reumalex arepopular herbal medicine that are used in rheumatoid arthritis. No doubt use of traditional medicine is increasing in modern world but the evidence of its effectiveness is required more research work and studies. Academic research program like master and doctoral degree can fulfill these gaps.
