Health Benefits of Naturopathy and Anti Inflammatory Diet in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients with Respect to Inflammatory Markers and Physical Parameters

Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disease which has its effect on life style of the patients. Naturopathy is a simple and effective system of medicine which has taken its scientific form today. The aim of the study was to investigate the effects of anti-inflammatory diet with naturopathy modality in the patients of RA on inflammatory markers (ESR, TNF-α, IL-6 and hs-CRP) and physical assessment. Thirty female patients with RA were assigned to naturopathy and anti inflammatory diet for three months. Physical assessment data's and blood samples were obtained at baseline, after one and third months. Inflammatory markers such as C-reactive protein, Tumor necrosis factor-α and Interleukin-6 were statistically significant and on the other hand Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate was not shown significant improvement after three months intervention. All measures of RA symptomatology like tenderness, swelling, DAS28, morning stiffness and health assessment questionair were statistically significant. A traditionally used technique of naturopathy and diet promotes positive health of RA patients.