REMEDY FOR ARTHRITIS

REMEDY FOR ARTHRITIS

What is arthritis? It is a health challenge or a disease that causes pain and swelling in one or more joints of the body. It is a disease that is joint or bone related. And it becomes more rampant as one is aging, so if you have an aged one at home that is suffering from this ailment, you can help him/her fighting this challenge with the remedy I am going to talk about. Joints are places where two bones meet such as knee or elbow or your back.

In Nigeria, it is estimated that 12.3 percent of Nigerian in urban area have rheumatoid arthritis, it is a type of arthritis that causes painful, stiff swollen joints. It is also noted from a reliable sources that females are more affected than males.

Many people use non-steroidal drugs, steroidal(chemical substance generated from human body) agents and immuno suppressant drugs to treat it, but these drugs have unwanted effect that is unpleasant to the body itself. Notwithstanding, all hope is not lost.

In a recent study, the experts discover that the use of herbs such as water decoction of Alchornea Cordifola leaves to ease rheumatic pains and enhancing  physical performance. Alchornea Cordifola is commonly known as the Christmass bush; it is known by other names such as dove wood(English). Its local names include ‘ewe eepa’, ‘esinsin’, and ‘eepa’ in Yoruba(Nigerian local dialect) , ‘banshe’ in Hausa and ‘edo’ or ‘ubebe’ in Igbo.

In the local/indigenous system of medicine, Alchornea Cordifola is used for the management of pain, rheumatism and arthritis, pile, febrile convulsions, toothache and some other inflammatory disease states.

In Africa(West), pulped root is widely taken to treat veneral disease. They are also taken as a blood purifier, as a tonic and to treat anaemia and epilepsy.

Alchornea Cordifola leaf and root decoction can be used as mouth wash to treat ulcers of the mouth, toothache and caries, and twigs are chewed for the same purposes. The root and stem bark are used in the treatment of jaundice.

In that study, I mentioned earlier, the researcher in their study tried to evaluate the efficacy of different amounts of extracts of the leaves in rats which were made to develop arthritis, to prove its efficacy in the local management of arthritis. Its effect was also compared with that from celecoxib, the conventional medication for treating arthritis.

Parameter such as the width of paw, body weight, full blood count as well as its effect on organs of the body such as the liver and kidney were assessed.

The researcher found that Alchornea Cordifola significantly inhibited the experimentally induced arthritis as well as inflammatory markers in the animals. In addition, the anti-arthric effect of Alchornea Cordifola was found to be comparable to that of celecoxib.

The researcher also found the extract improved the weight gain pattern in the treated arthritic rats, suggested that this could be due to improvement in the arthritic state of the rats.

For further information, you can consult the African Journal of Traditional, Complement Alternative Medicine.

Therefore, administer it to your arthritis problem and you will see its  effectiveness in ameliorating pain and other inflammatory disease states such as pile and toothache.

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