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Paralysis is the deficiency of muscle work in piece of your body. It happens when something turns out badly with the manner in which messages pass between your cerebrum and muscles. Loss of motion can be finished or fractional. It can happen on one or the two sides of your body. It can likewise happen in only one region, or it very well may be boundless. Loss of motion of the lower half of your body, including the two legs, is called paraplegia. Loss of motion of the arms and legs is quadriplegia.

Pakshaghata is a Vatavyadhi and enormous number of populace influenced by sickness universally and older matured people groups are more vulnerable than more youthful one. Different etiological factors, for example, Virudha Aahara, Atijagarana, Ati Vyavaya, Asruk srava, Vichesta, Dhatu kshya, Shoka, Chinta, Diwaswapna, Marmabhighata and Vegasandharana starts pathogenesis of Pakshaghata.

Types of Paralysis

Complete paralysis: the point at which you can’t move or control your deadened muscles by any means. You additionally will be unable to feel anything in those muscles. 

Partial or inadequate paralysis: is the point at which you actually make them feel in, and perhaps power over, your incapacitated muscles. This is once in a while called paresis 

Localized paralysis: influences only one explicit region, similar to your face, hands, feet, or vocal ropes. 

Generlized paralysis: is more boundless in your body and is assembled by the amount of your body is influenced. The sort ordinarily relies upon where your mind or spinal rope is harmed. 

• Monoplegia is a sort of summed up loss of motion that influences only one appendage. 
• Diplegia influences similar territory on the two sides, as the two arms, the two legs, or the two sides of your face. 
• Hemiplegia influences only one side of your body and is generally brought about by a stroke, which harms one side of your cerebrum. 
• Quadriplegia (or tetraplegia) is the point at which each of the four appendages is deadened, at times alongside specific organs. 
• Paraplegia is paralysis starting from the waist. 

Causes of Paralysis

• Bell’s paralysis (brought about by a swollen or excited nerve that controls the facial muscles) 
• Cerebral paralysis 
• Different sclerosis (illness that influences the mind and spinal string causing shortcoming, coordination and equilibrium challenges, and different issues) 
• Solid dystrophy (acquired turmoil that causes a reformist loss of muscle tissue and muscle shortcoming) 
• Fringe neuropathy (jumble that causes brokenness of nerves that lie outside the cerebrum and spinal string) 
• Broken or cut off spinal rope 
• Direct injury to a nerve, like brachial plexus injury, discharge or cut injury, crack, or separation with nerve harm 
• Electrical injury 
• Herniated vertebral circle 
• Toxic substances, for example, botulinum or snake toxin 
• Radiation 
• Poisons like mercury, lead or arsenic

Symptoms of Paralysis

• Deadness or agony in the influenced muscles 
• Muscle shortcoming 
• Obvious indications of muscle misfortune (muscle decay) 
• Solidness 
• Compulsory fits or jerks

Management of Paralysis

Internal treatment: 

Not all interior meds of ayurveda for Pakshaghat are appropriate for patients. In view of the different dosha levels and presence of illnesses like hypertension or high serum cholesterol, prescriptions are changed to show up at the ideal treatment plan. These drugs are wealthy in cancer prevention agents and subsequently they are controlled to improve the accessibility of oxygen in mind and in this manner resuscitate the torpid cells. Medications are generally made out of yet not limited to: 

Bala – Country Mallow 

Ashwagandha – Winter Cherry 

Radish oil 

External treatment: 

For better outcomes, ayurveda consistently utilizes plenty of outer medicines alongside interior prescriptions. The outside medicines are conceived to such an extent that they are advantageous for easing the firmness in solid framework and furthermore for animating the inner organs to adjust doshas. 

Oil kneads: Tailas (oils) like Mahamasha, dhanwantaram, and ksheerabala are widely used to fortify the strong framework and lessen the pressure related with it. 

Panchakarma treatment: Panchakarma treatments are successful in delivering huge advantages while treating loss of motion. 

Basti – Considered as the mother of all panchakarma medicines, it purifies the aggravations in dosha levels 

Nasya – Administration of sedated oils through nostrils 

Oil application and kneading specific pieces of the body additionally yields results for patients who don’t have over abundance level of kapha dosha. 

Shiro Abhyanga – use of oil in head 

Sharera Abhyanga – use of oil in full body 

Pada abhyanga – use of oil in lower appendages

Diet and Lifestyle in Paralysis

• Stay away from unnecessary utilization of zesty, astringent and additionally pungent, sleek/greasy food and incongruent eating routine, Bengal gram, peas, potato, and so forth 
• Utilize dark gram, horse gram, onion, garlic, ginger, radish, debris gourd, green gram and so forth in ordinary eating regimen. 
• Use organic products like pomegranate, grape or papaya. 
• Devour low fat and a high strands diet as exhorted by the doctor. 
• Control the treatable danger factors like Diabetes mellitus, hypertension, heart infections. 
• Practice standard activities or physiotherapy. 
• Stay away from inordinate starvation, abundance works out, smothering of normal inclinations. 
• Stay away from liquor utilization, smoking. 
• Stay away from end of any ordinary prescription without clinical guidance. 
• Be dynamic and ideal utilization of influenced part and Continue practices as proposed by the doctor

Keep Moving

• People with arthritis fear it will increase pain or lead to further damage to their joints if they keep doing regular physical activity. Our joints allow for movement when the body is not resisting exercising.
• Movement of joints reduces pain, joint stiffness, strengthens the muscles which surround the joints. It helps us maintain a healthy weight. The effects are true, so keep moving!

Protect Your Joints

• It is very crucial for everyone, especially people with osteoporosis and arthritis, to look after their joints. The main aim of joint-protection foundations is to reduce pain and decrease the strain or load placed on the joints.

Maintain Your Ideal Weight

• We need to maintain our optimal body weight, concerning ideal joint health. Carrying surplus bodyweight adds strain to our joints, especially the weight-bearing joints like knee joint and ankle joint. 
• Researchers have found that weight loss effectively decreases knee pain and stiffness in muscles associated with knee osteoarthritis.1 

Do Low-Impact Exercises

• A gentle type of exercise/workout that minimizes the strain put on joints during highly intense workouts. The significant benefits of regular physical activity and yoga can be achieved with low-impact exercise.
• According to the Ayurvedic doctors, low-impact exercises that are easier on your joints include aquatic sports like swimming, social sports like golf, as well as brisk walking and cycling.

Eat an Anti-Inflammatory Diet

• Reducing inflammation is part of managing arthritis disorder under control and improving overall joint health.
•  An anti-inflammatory diet means including food items that decrease inflammation and avoiding foods that increase inflammation.
•  According to some sources, a Mediterranean diet is a good option for keeping inflammation (due to arthritis) under control.

Strengthen Your Muscles

• The muscles that assist our joints must be kept as powerful and healthy as possible. Maintaining or improving your muscle strength can be done with the help of strengthening exercises.
• Weight training can be generally used as part of a strengthening systematic regime. Be careful while doing your workouts and not overdo it. 
• With proper exercise and training, you will increase the strength of your joints, while decreasing pain.

Try Range-of-Motion Exercises

• Bone and joints disorders are characteristically associated with limited series of motion.
• To maintain your current series of motion or to improve it, you should regularly put each joint through its entire range of motion.
• Flexion, Extension, or rotation of each of your joints. Range of motion exercises improve endurance, flexibility, decrease stiffness and pain, and help keep our joints properly functional.

Stop Smoking

• Most people are unaware of the fact that smoking enhances the risk of osteoporosis (porous bones) and bone fractures.
• Smoking also increases the risk of injuries involving bursitis (inflammation of bursae of synovial fluid) or tendonitis. 
• Smokers also have a higher risk of getting diagnosed with rheumatoid Arthritis and lower backache. Restraint of smoking helps in improving bone density.

Diet

Bone Broth

• Glucosamine sulfate, chondroitin, and amino acids are well documented and suggested to help maintain healthy bones and joints, while calcium is required for bone density.
•  Bone broth has all of these ingredients. The substance (like gelatin) that comes from cooking bones imitates collagen that is present naturally in our joints, ligaments, and tendons. 
• It is a fiercely debated topic in the medical field whether bone broth can stimulate the re-growth of cartilage or not. It has been known to reduce joint pain and maintain optimal function for people with arthritis when taken regularly as an oral supplement. 
• Bone broth can be used in recipes as a cooking base or consumed as a hot broth. You can get tips on bone broth recipes from Ayurvedic dietitians.

Lentils and Beans

• Beans and lentils are well known for their health advantages. Beans and lentils are an excellent source of trace minerals, protein, and fiber. 
• They also have excellent antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. Anthocyanins are wonderful flavonoid that reduces inflammation. 
• Black beans, pinto beans, lentils, chickpeas, and soybeans are all great sources of anthocyanins.

Olive Oil

• Avoid peanut oil, vegetable oil, and sunflower oil as all of these can increase inflammation. Opt for a few tablespoons of olive oil for cooking and making salad dressings rather than above mentioned oils.
•  It is better to use the extra virgin variety of oil that is least processed. It is also a good source of Omega 3 fatty acid and is an unsaturated “healthy” fat. 

Nuts and Seeds

• For vegans and vegetarians among us, Omega 3 fatty acid can also be found in a wide range of nuts and seeds. A small daily portion of walnuts, sunflower seeds, almonds, flax seeds, chia seeds can be significantly effective in reducing inflammation in the joints and connective tissue.

Omega-3 Fatty Acids / Fish Oils

• Omega 3 fatty acids are found in an enormous amount in cold water fishes, which are essential nutrients for overall human health.
• These crucial nutrients are also sometimes referred to as polyunsaturated fatty acids. 
• They not only improve brain function and lower the risk of heart disease, diabetes, and other illnesses, as well as proven to reduce inflammatory factors in the body.
• Taking a daily fish oil supplement is another way to absorb Omega-3s. It can be found in cold-water fishes like sardines, trout, tuna, salmon, and halibut.

Garlic and Root Vegetables

• Food items having anti-inflammatory properties are garlic, onion, turmeric, and ginger.
•  Various research studies have proven that these pungent vegetables are beneficial in treating symptoms of arthritis, osteoporosis, and other joint pain. 
• You can add these vegetables to meals for added flavor. They’re all available in form of a supplement as well.

Chew properly

• For proper digestion chewing food properly is very necessary and also to prevent an individual from overeating.
•  Some research shows that people who spend enough time while having a meal take in lesser calories, as compared to those who just swallow down their foods without chewing them.
• You have to understand why chewing the food is necessary to understand the cause of this event. Chewing helps in break down food items into small pieces and along with the saliva, resulting in proper digestion. 
• The stomach takes a longer time to digest the food if the food is not chewed thoroughly. It causes weight gain to occur due to the improper digestion of food.
• The more you take time to finish your meal, the more will be the chance of feel full after consuming smaller portions.   

Enough sleep

• This is not a home remedy and more of a lifestyle choice. But, with ease, everyone can follow it with a little practice as it is a very simple step.
•  Even though there are a lot of other activities that you would rather spend time on, try to get at least eight hours of sleep each day. This is as important as maintaining a proper diet when it comes to losing weight in your body.
• Sleep helps significantly in improving digestion and regulating the body’s functions. Maintenance of the normal metabolic rate of the body is also done by sleep, which is essential in shedding the excess pound from your body.  

Eating more fibers

• Fiber has several effective benefits for a person who wants to lose weight. Some research states that an increased intake of fiber can help a person feel fuller more quickly.
• Fiber aids in balancing the bacteria in the gut. Additionally, influencing digestion results in weight loss.

Stay hydrated

• Drinking sufficient amounts of water each day can be a very compelling home remedy for weight loss. 
• Some people either unaware of how much water is enough to be consumed or they only drink water when they feel thirsty. Indeed, most people do not consume enough water daily.
• A smart way to calculate the amount of water your body requires is to weigh yourself and divide your current weight with the number 30. 
• The resulting amount will be the amount of water you should consume in a day. For an instance, if you weigh 70 kilograms, then your daily water consumption should be 70/30, which is equals 2.33 liters.

Avoid calories in the beverage

• Cold drinks, Carbonated drinks, preserved fruit juices, and energy drinks often contain excess sugar, which can result in weight gain and make it tougher for a person to lose extra weight.
• Other categories of high-calorie drinks include alcohol, tea, and coffees, such as cappuccino, and latte, which contain milk and sugar.
• A person who wants to lose weight can try replacing these beverages each day with water, coconut water, mint water with lemon, or herbal tea.

Avoid refined carbohydrate

• Refined carbohydrates can be more harmful to the body’s metabolism than saturated fats according to the evidence provided by researchers.
• The liver will form and release fat into the bloodstream in response to the consumption of sugar from refined carbohydrates.
• A person who is willing to reduce weight can eat whole grains instead.

Refined or simple carbohydrates include the following foods:

• New white rice
• White bread
• Many kinds of pasta
• White flour
• Candies
• Many sorts of cereal
• Refined sugars
• Bakery products

Rice, pasta, and bread, all are available in whole-grain types, which can effectively help in weight loss and protect the body from other diseases as well.

Eating more protein

• A high protein diet can help a person lose weight. Research on high-protein diets found that they are a successful strategy for preventing or curing obesity.
• The data stated that a diet rich in protein of around 25–30 grams of protein per meal provided improvements in appetite and metabolism, bodyweight management, reducing cardiometabolic risk factors, or all of these health benefits.
• A person should eat more eggs, fish, soybean, pulses and, lean meats to increase protein content in meals. These all foods are high in protein content and relatively less in fat. Lean proteins are:
• Fish
• Eggs
• Gram, beans, and peas
• Low-fat cottage cheese (made from skimmed milk)
• Tofu ( made from soya milk)

Enough exercise

One should do exercises at least thrice a week including cycling, swimming, jogging, any sports activity, yoga and pranayama, Gymnastics, and Brisk walking.