Indian food recipes with less carb and gluten free

He is an applied kinesiologist and uses muscle testing and some other methods to ascertain what is out of balance in your body. Treatment could be vitamin and /or herbal. He is a pioneer in this field. I was not on allopathic medicine (had finished it and was very ill from it) and my friend was on her full pantheon of anti-depressive and pain meds. Office call and treatment items are very reasonable.

You might read his paper on solanine toxicity....I have always felt that this would be especially pertinent to Indians given how they eat so many items in the nightshade family at one meal (not the nightshade you know in India but the nightshade family from the New World). Westerners never would eat so many items together at once...perhaps maxing out with eggplant parm. The plants in this family are all poisonous but the fruits or roots (as in potatoes) are eaten. These would include tomato, potato, eggplant, peppers.

 

Hi Kashmir Flower,

This thread is very much useful for me as my H is having RA for the past 10 years.

He did not mind about pains in joints before marriage and even 2 years after marriage. He just started taking medicines when the situation starts worsen, his fingers joints got swollen if he do more work in keyboard, hands and leg joints started paining, stiffness and pain gets worsen if he lifts a normal weight luggage or something like that.

Then with my constant pressure he visited an allopathy doc, he has done some blood tests with CRP, ESR etc in which we found his CRP (C-reactive protein) is very high. He prescribed some tablets for 3 months and my H took all those medicines and then we forgot about the followup.

Again after 6 months with some pain aggravates in the leg, this time we went to ayurveda doc afraid of allopathy medicines. Ayurveda doc first checked our blood test report and gave us some set of medicines which contains legiyam, churnam and vati, he had all those for 2 months. The pain is now reduced but the CRP count is just reduced by 10 mg/l, again we went to the doc but this time he asked us to stop those and gave us different sets which contains the additional ghee sought of medicines along with legiyams and churnams. Within in one month the CRP has reduced to major extent but still not in the normal range. Hence we followed for another 3 months and then stopped due to laziness.

But now after one year again pain started in hands and legs, he can feel the changes very much. This week will have to take blood test for CRP and i am sure it would have increased by now, so will have to check with the doc.

The only issue with that ayurveda doc is he do not explain the problem to us. Even when we asks doubt he will not clear, so without interaction we feel something is not satisfied. But faith is the only source of curing any ailments...i know....still thinking twice before going to the same doc this time. Let see....my H's collegue has some other digestion issue and now he is checking with Naturopathy (fully curing through diets with minimal natural medicines) so we have another idea of going there too...but not yet decided....will let you guys know in my later post.

So happy to join this thread to share our issues reg RA, thanks for sharing yours too in detail.

Hi priya16, Very happy to see you here, your posts makes me to enter this thread when i see in the main page and thanks for starting this thread, will be in touch.

A favour, if possible can anyone of you ask about CRP and RA connections, everytime we calculate our RA through CRP measurement, but whenever i search about CRP in google it makes me afraid, coz of the consequences it mentions. But once when i met my family doc who is allopathy, he asked why to get worrying about CRP, this is nothing important. But i am not satisfied. So if possible can you pls just about the both CRP and RA connection with your doc next time which will be useful for me.

Thanks !

 

Hi Bhucat,

I am glad to share info. The more info u know u better can manage such chronic issues.

CRP- c-reactive protein is a blood test to measure the inflammation level in the body.
It may be more meaning to the Rheumatologist, as my doc gives lot of importance to this test results.

There is a blood test called "RA Factor", you can ask ur husband to get it done in any big labs. This one shows in higher range, if one has Rheumatoid arthritis.

not all RAs are same, now a days my doc says I might have seronegative RA, for which treatment differs from doctor points of view,.
As per my doc, there is so much interrelated in this autoimmune problems, connective tissue disorders, and this auto immune thing can affect any part of the body.

I don't want to scare you, everybody will not get affected same.

I feel ur husband is not taking enough care, better to keep it under control with medicines.

For emergency, you may contact ur family doctor, but it is good to be treated by one doctor always , who is a rhematologist. (so that doc also knows better about the person health condition). Only a rheumatologist knows best, as lot of research goes on these chronic diseases.

Even though u use ayurveda or naturopathy, u visit ur rhumatologist with ur blood reports, and make sure that ur in good condition.

 

Thanks Priya.

My doc also did RA factor test in the beginning, to mare sure it is RA, they don't repeat it seems.
CRP test my doc does it often, I think u keep all copies of ur blood work with u, if not ask the nurse next time, they will give u. Check some old reports might have CRP test done for you.

coming to food, because of Ulcerative colitis too, I eat very bland diet, It won't taste nice, but now I got used to this bland taste, I will share later, when I make anything interesting.

 

It would be a huge shift in how you eat....no doubt. Remember, chilli is also a nightshade...it's not just the tomatoes. So back to black pepper (which was what Indians did before New World foods were introduced to India). Some friends of mine once used pureed cooked zucchini as the base of curry gravy...it was actually really good.

 

You can also just thicken whatever juices are there with cornstarch and water. Add to the broth and boil a little to thicken.