A literature review on amavata with its modern co – relation to rheumatoid arthritis

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Amavata is the worst medical problem and it composed of two words Ama and Vata. The disease mainly caused by Agni vikara specially Mandagni which forms Ama (Toxic ailment) and circulates all over body and gets en try to the Sandhi sthana (Joint spaces) and produces and inflammatory conditions and leads to immo bility , p ain, swelling and later deformities of the joints. The classical clinical features of Amavata are clo sely similar to th e features of Rheumatologic disorder of Western Medicine for this reason Rheumatologic Arthritis and immunological joint disorder has been considered here as a Modern correlation of Amavata.Amavata or RA is chronic incurable morbid autoimmune challenging problem to the clinician so vivid study of that problem is an urge of presen t era for finding out the solution or remedies of this problem. In presence study vivid review of ancient literature related to Amavata have been done to furnish the nidan (etiology), Samprapti (pathogenesis), Ru pa , La kshan a (symptomatology), Spakekshanidan (differential diagnosis), Chikitsasidhanta (principle of management), etc. in a scientific and methodical manner. Modern literatures related to RA have also b een stu died h ere to m ake co– relation with the ancient thought and modern scientific evaluation of the ailment. As the modern medicaments are not so much safe and effective towards management of RA and Ayurvedic classics have contributed a lot of preparation and treatment modalities to treat Agni as well as preventing the pathogenesis of Amavata , so th o se scop es have been presented here for considerations of scholars towards betterment of suffering humanity. Keywords: Amavata, Ama, Langhan, Swedan, Virechan, Basti , Rheumatoid Arthritis