Arthritis a disease of joints, is mainly caused by deficiency of calcium, hydrochloric acid or malnutrition, by obesity, physical stress or glandular insufficiency. Millions of people of all age groups suffer from this torturing disease. The most disheartening aspect of the disease is that it does not get easily cured through medicine when it is in chronic stages. But it has been found that with regular practice of yoga and a proper diet moderate arthritis can be cured within two months and in chronic cases it takes around 4-5 months.

Yogic Cure

Yoga aims at relaxing you and at the same time keeping you moderately active so that your joints do not become stiff. Along with exercises and proper diet arthritics should take a lot of care of their hygiene.

Recommended Asana :
	Surya Namaskar - activates all glands.
	Santulanasan ../asp/combo_yoga_exercises.asp- removes rigidity of joints and normalises blood circulation.
	Trikonasan (Triangular) - Cures pain or any disorder of neck and shoulder joints; activates all major joints (spine, the hip, the hands and the palms)above the waist area and tones the muscles; also provides quality of mental attentiveness.
	Gomukhasan (Cow's face and jaw pose) - exercises finger joints, toes, ankles, knees and hip joints; activates muscles of joints therefore removing waste products from joints; restores joint fluid therby removing spasticity and pain.
	Vrikshasan (Tree pose) -tones up muscles of ankles, toes, knees, hip joints, shoulder, elbows etc. ; brings flexibility in the legs and hands.
	Natrajasan (Dance pose) - activates almost all joints; removes spinal rigidity, pain, backache,and stiffness. Strengthens all major bones and generates vitality.
	Halasan (Plough pose) - makes spine and legs flexible.