Hello, I'm 25 years old and recently detected with Ankylosing spondylitis. I have started Physiotherapy and taking medicines. Suggest me proper diet. Also, I want to. Gain weight. I am 5'6 and weight is 45. Thank you!

Namaste

Spondylitis of any kind is a result of inflammation of the vertebrae. And this is caused by deposits of toxins along with less use or misuse of that particular part of the body. You are still very young, you can over come this issue if you put your mind to it. According to natures laws we just need to remove things or habits that obstruct or drain our vitality. And introduce certain practices and food habits which would not drain our vitality and let our bodies work according to its nature and heal itself. Let us see what the basic changes are that you could make in your routine:

Foods to be removed

1 All packaged and processed outside food-like substances.

2 Refined flour and refined oil

3 All types of stimulants like tea and coffee. If you drink alcohol then that too must be stopped.

4 All overcooked, deep-fried oily food.

5 milk and milk products, meat eggs etc 

Foods to be included 

1 Fresh locally grown seasonal fruits - 50% of daily intake

2 Fresh seasonal vegetables and greens - 35% of daily intake

3 Grains - soaked or sprouted or steamed - 10 % of daily intake

4 soaked nuts and seeds - 5% of daily intake

And understand this - it is not only the food that influences your quality of blood but many other things too matter equally. 

1 Learn Pranayam and yoga for relaxing your mind, improving your flexibility and activating your lymphatic system.

2 Get good sun exposure either in the early hours of the morning or a couple of hours before sunset. 

3 Get in touch with Mother Earth. Do some gardening with your hands or at least walk barefoot on sand or mud. Sit in parks or lie on the ground or lawns and relax.

4 Keep an eye on your bowel movement. See to it that your bowels are always functioning normally. Eliminate larger quantities than what you eat.

5 Rest and relax well. Sleep in the earlier part of the night and sleep through the night. Wake up before or with the sun.

6 Be well hydrated. Consume a lot of juicy fruits veggies and greens to hydrate yourself well.

7 Get your body moving, do yoga or participate in any outdoor sport, walk or do some gardening. Moving your body will support the removal of toxins and free flow of vitality

8 Be happy always. Don’t let life’s negativities to bog you down. Always be positive.

Follow these principles and as you go on eliminating toxins and discarding all damaged unhealthy tissues you will start seeing a great change in your overall health. 

If you need any assistance during the cleansing or healing crises do not hesitate to get in touch

Be happy be healthy always 

Swati Dhariwal 

Nature Cure Practitioner

नमस्ते

दर्द वाले जगह पर धनिया + खीरा का पेस्ट लगाएँ 20 मिनट के लिए। दिन में दो बार तिल के तेल से घड़ी की सीधी दिशा (clockwise) में

और घड़ी की उलटी दिशा (anti clockwise)में मालिश करें। नरम हाथों से बिल्कुल भी प्रेशर नहीं देना है।

प्राकृतिक जीवन शैली को अपनाने से हाज़मा और क़ब्ज़ की समस्या ठीक होगा। ऐसा होने से दर्द से छुटकारा मिल जाएगा। आइए प्राकृतिक जीवन शैली में हम 5 प्रकार के आहार से अवगत हों।

1 आकाश तत्व- एक खाने से दूसरे खाने के बीच में विराम दें, रोज़ाना 15 घंटे का उपवास करें जैसे रात का भोजन 7 बजे तक कर लिया और सुबह का नाश्ता 9 बजे लें।

2 वायु तत्व- लंबा गहरा स्वाँस अंदर भरें और रुकें। इसके बाद फिर पूरे तरीक़े से स्वाँस को ख़ाली करें रुकें फिर स्वाँस अंदर भरें ये एक चक्र हुआ। ऐसे 10 चक्र एक समय पर करना है। ये दिन में चार

3 अग्नि तत्व- सूर्य उदय के एक घंटे बाद या सूर्य अस्त के एक घंटे पहले का धूप शरीर को ज़रूर लगाएँ। सर और आँख को किसी सूती कपड़े से ढक कर। जब भी लेंटे अपना दायाँ भाग ऊपर करके लेटें ताकि आपका सूर्य नाड़ी सक्रिय रहे।

4 जल तत्व- खाना खाने से एक घंटे पहले नाभि के ऊपर गीला सूती कपड़ा लपेट कर रखें। खाना के 2 घंटे बाद भी ऐसा कर सकते हैं।मेरुदंड स्नान के लिए अगर टब ना हो तो एक मोटा तौलिया गीला कर लें बिना निचोरे उसको बिछा लें और अपने मेरुदंड को उस स्थान पर रखें।

सर पर सूती कपड़ा बाँध कर उसके ऊपर खीरा और मेहंदी या करी पत्ते का पेस्ट लगाएँ,नाभि पर खीरा का पेस्ट लगाएँ।पैरों को 20 मिनट के लिए सादे पानी से भरे किसी बाल्टी या टब में डूबो कर रखें।

मेरुदंड (स्पाइन) सीधा करके बैठें। हमेशा इस बात ध्यान रखें और हफ़्ते में 3 दिन मेरुदंड का स्नान करें। 

5 पृथ्वी- सब्ज़ी, सलाद, फल, मेवे, आपका मुख्य आहार होगा आप सुबह खीरे का जूस लें, खीरा1/2 + धनिया पत्ती पीस लें, 100ml पानी मिला कर पीएँ, 2 घंटे बाद फल नाश्ते में लेना है।

दोपहर में 12 बजे फिर से इसी जूस को लें और इसके एक घंटे बाद खाना खाएँ, शाम को नारियल पानी लें फिर 2 घंटे तक कुछ ना लें।  रात के सलाद में हरे पत्तेदार सब्ज़ी को डालें। ताज़ा नारियल को पीस कर मिलाएँ। 

लाल, हरा, पीला शिमला मिर्च 1/4 हिस्सा हर एक का मिलाएँ। इसे बिना नमक के खाएँ। रात का खाना 8 बजे खाएँ। पृथ्वी तत्व को शरीर में डालने का एक नियम हमेशा याद रखें ठोस (solid) खाने को चबा कर तरल (liquid) बना कर खाएँ। तरल (liquid) को मुँह में घूँट घूँट पीएँ। खाना ज़मीन पर बैठ कर खाएँ। खाते वक़्त ना तो बात करें और ना ही TV और mobile को देखें। ठोस (solid) भोजन के तुरंत बाद या बीच बीच में जूस या पानी ना लें। भोजन हो जाने के एक घंटे बाद तरल पदार्थ (liquid) ले सकते हैं।

दर्द वाले भाग पर गीली मिट्टी लगाएँ या खीरा + धनिया + तिल पीस कर पेस्ट बना लें। लगाएँ 20 मिनट के लिए और फिर साफ़ कर लें। इससे दर्द में तुरन्त आराम मिलेगा।

रूबी, Ruby

प्राकृतिक जीवनशैली शिक्षिका (Nature Cure Educator)

Hi there, 

Ankylosing spondylitis is a form of arthritis that mostly affects the spine and other joints of the body .

It affects almost every part of the spine but mostly affected parts are the joint where spine and pelvis meet. 

To begin with, go for a healthy diet pattern which includes fresh fruits, vegetables and whole grains.

• Calcium and vitamin D rich diet such as dark leafy greens, soy, beans and lentils can help strengthen the spine and back muscles.

• An anti-inflammatory diet and omega 3 rich foods such as chia seeds, flax seeds, garlic and gingers should be included.

• Avoid oily, spicy, sugary foods, smoking can worsen the condition.

• Avoid lifting heavyweight as it will strain the back muscles and weekend the joints.

• Do not rest for long, it can stiffen your joints and muscles. Keep stretching .

• Correcting the postures is very important. Wrong postures including sitting, standing or sleeping can worsen the conditions.

• Ice massage for 10-15 minutes can help reduce inflammation on the back. Apply ice directly or indirectly before strengthening exercise.

• Heat application such as hot fomentation or moist heat for 5-10 minutes can help increase blood flow to the strained muscles and relief pain.

•  Body massage with essential oil can help relieve the pain .

• An exercise that strengthens the back muscles is very important. Any back stretching and strengthening exercises should be continued.

• Go for back strengthening yoga asana from a certified practitioner. Correct asana practices can help strengthen the back muscles and relief back pain. Mobility and flexibility is very important and should be kept in check. 

Dear health  seeker As a nature cure practitioner i have very successfully treated many patients of the disease symptoms called spondylitis, Be assured that you are in the safe hands of mother nature and  she has the power to restore to health provided you follow her with utter reverence, dedication, reforming, the unhygienic lifestyle, the real cause of your affliction, Spine is called the back bone of our whole structure and any ailment of this organ is simply indicative that every thing inside is not hunky dorry, the body is laden with toxins and encumbrances, and needs an  holistic approach to  rid the body of the encumbrances. The  following treatment is advised for a week 

1. An early morning empty stomach drink  either  of  ashgourd, bael patra juice, banana stem juice of  60 ml
2  Sun bath for 30 to 40 minutes, first  20 minutes facing sun and 20 minutes  back- towards sun, follow it with  cold water spinal  bath bath  for 25 minutes  and full bath, don't apply any soap on the body .This  process is must and  should be followed  religiously,  In case of unavailability of bath tub, you may lie down on a wet Turkish towel 
Spinal bath alone is a nerve tonic capable of  restoring the health of spine in particular and overall health in general 
3. Fruits of one kind .in  breakfast 
4..The lunch to be prominently be of  boiled vegetables and salads plus 1/4th coconut 
5   Fruits juices in the afternoon 
6..Spinal bath as above 
7. Dinner  of  fruits only 
8. Stimulating  wet pack for one hour on abdomen. In the night  8 o clock 
It is expected that there would be no indulgence in any  devitalising, enervating foods  other than  advised above, and  observe  continence for as long as treatment is in  progress. 
Have a mental poise, the disease symptoms  will no longer  be  there  in short span 
Nature cure is  highly effective and very quick also  ,your  disease symptoms ere long will be taken care of within shortest span 

V.S.Pawar   Member Indian institute of natural therapeutics    1980

You can start by eating healthy, juicing a lot. Once your digestion and assimilation becomes efficient, your body will start building. Step1 is releasing toxins, cleaning the body, improving the quality of the organs to assimilate and digest and then weight gain happens.

Losing or gaining healthy weight happens when your body and mainly your gut is in a good shape to absorb nutrients or shed the excess. The solution is the same for both the cases. Whatever is the imbalance the body decides and fixes it. High raw whole food plant based meal is your solution. Good sleep , exposure to sun, exercises that help you gain healthy muscles. 

Fats don’t come because you have nuts or avocado or coconut. Unless your body is ready to act on the food you eat, no food will help.

The more the body gets digestive rest from cooked and other wrong foods, it will heal u off the your problems and then build you muscles after u work towards it with weights. You cannot eat fats and gain “healthy” weight . You will gain unhealthy weight . Fact is to get healthy and parallel work on muscle building. 

Lifestyle changes combined with right food and exercises will help heal from Ankylosing spondylitis. People have also healed from slip discs.

To balance the acidic body environment, blood can choose to target that area to leach calcium. 

With animal products like dairy meat eggs fish in your meals, acidity in the body increases and the body will suck all the alkaline enzymes to maintain homeostasis.  

If high acidic foods ( not coming under category of fruits veg veggies greens majorly) are injested, their ph is less than normal, the stomach does not need to make it acidic to process. The pancreas won’t produce the alkaline buffers to the blood to neutralise the acidity raised by the stomach. So this acidic food in its state reaches the next few levels like the duodenum which are not geared for this ph level and bile from liver and gallbladder is called to rescue this balance. As this bile continues to be overproduced, liver becomes tired. If liver and gallbladder are not in a good working condition, enough Bile is not made available in the duodenum, and this is how acidic food reaches the intestines. . As liver weakens, the body cleaning  is also compromised and blood continues to carry acidic  toxins that have the liver could not manage and have reached the intestines where nutrients get absorbed. I went to acidity in the blood goes up, the blood first uses of the alkaline buffers present in its blood plasma to bring the blood closer to an alkaline pH. Unfortunately because of continuous supply of acidic foods to the body, the level of alkaline buffers is often very low. If the blood pH value falls below this range, then all the bodily fluids such as urine, lymphatic fluid, semen, Cerebrospinal fluids, saliva everything starts becoming acidic. This disrupts all the cellular function in the body and disturbs the balance. To prevent such a state of decline, the blood starts reducing its acidity by neutralising it with one of the most alkaline substance in the body that is calcium from the bones. So blood starts dissolving the calcium from the bones in its self to reach an ideal pH level. This is also called leaching  of calcium. Blood is a supplier and also a retriever . It will choose parts of the bone where it can leach  very quickly such as the ends of the bones .As it continues to do so, that part of the joint weakens and produces a pain and inflammation. There will also be severe obstruction of blood flow, the viscosity of blood will be thicker. All these factors lead to the accumulation of toxins across the body.

https://www.wellcure.com/body-wisdom/1/do-you-know-about-the-body-s-acid-alkaline-balance

Follow

• High raw foods - Start with drinking juices till 12, fruits greens for lunch , veggies post that for 10-15 days. Then add cooked gluten free and oilfree for dinner.
• Respecting the circadian rhythm https://www.wellcure.com/body-wisdom/15/circadian-rhythm-of-the-body
• Natural Hydration to ensure body has enough to maintain homeostasis - 2-3 lts
• Enough exercise like yoga as possible 
• Breathing - Pranayam as possible 
• Mental poise - mental peace and positive thinking 
• Resting well - sleeping in time and following circadian rhythm 
• Experience natural elements - exposure to sun daily
• Not medicating the body to suppress any eliminations - are chemicals used to suppress natural elimination from body.
• Not overloading the body with toxic foods the body can’t recognise - things unnatural that we can’t chew and digest in its raw state. Man made fake foods using Dairy eggs meat fish sugar wheat maida refined oil white rice salty store bought foods fried foods etc 
• Freeing the body off digestion every few days - fasting 
• Spending time Connecting with oneself the form of meditation 
• Ensure that your bowel movements are regular
• Apply a cold wet towel and rest in the area of pain for 30 min 

Once u feel  better ,

following exerxise must be done daily 6-7 time 

1 ) stand with feet apart but comfortably. You can sit if you cannot stand. Put pressure on the forehead wit the palms backwards while the head is trying to lean fwd. similarly head leaning backward while palms at the back of the head pushing fwd. 

2) relax and do some warm ups with neck exercises like bending on all sides 12 counts 

3) shoulder rotations clockwise and anti-clockwise

3) apply cooling wet pack and relax 

Thanks let me know if you have any questions 

be blessed

Smitha Hemadri (Educator of natural healing practices)