Osteoarthritis, also known as degenerative joint disease, (DJD), is the most common form of arthritis and is caused by the breakdown of cartilage in one or more joints. Osteoarthritis has many signs and symptoms but the main symptoms are stiff and very painful joints. One of the most painful moments of having joint pain stiffness is in the morning after resting the joints. Moving the joints around and stretching in the morning are great ways to get rid of the stiffness. One other severe joint pain is right after or during exercising or continuous strain on the particular area. Joint pains are very disadvantageous because they can interfere in the normal functioning of people. From an Ayurvedic point of view, joint pains occur when there are digestive problems in the body, which leads to the buildup of toxins in the spaces between the joints. Hence, when the joints are moved in the slightest, pain is felt in them.

Joint pain can be caused by a number of different factors. For example, any athlete, aerobic or anaerobic trainer is extremely likely to suffer from joint pain. In a way, this discomfort is warranted - almost a good thing - because it implies that you are getting an extremely intense workout. But in the end it is a pain just like any other, and if you do not stop it, it is going to get worse. Depending on the causative factor and what degree it has, joint pain relief is quite possible. Joint pain relief from injured and dislocated joint pain is quite difficult and may seek some modern science help such as plaster etc. This is often treated using some pain killeri.e. medications. But if the joint pain relief is sought for general or normal joint pains, one can obtain with some herbal medications , oil (external) application, sudation (steam bath) along with some internal medication that includes herbal extracts or some patent formula using herbs those are natural analgesic and anti-inflammatory.

Treatment:

-#Take the juice of a ginger. Crush some vidanga (Embelia ribes, False Black Pepper) to a fine powder with some rock salt. Mix all of these and take them in quantities of three grams each time with honey. Lick on this thrice a day.

-#In case of joint pains due to cold weather, add a fistful of Bishop's weed seeds and one teaspoon of salt in two cups of water and boil it. Keep a sieve on this, and then keep a cloth on the sieve. The cloth will get moistened with the warm fumes of the solution. Use this cloth to foment the painful joints. This will remove the pains.

-#Take a petal of the yellow oleander flower, known as kaner in Hindi, and grind it to a paste in groundnut oil. Apply this paste regularly on the regions where the joint pains arise. Continuous use will totally eliminate the pains.

-#Cook some seeds of Bishop's weed in water. Let the water boil and the fumes come out. Bring your affected joints in contact with the fumes. This will make the joint pains disappear.

-#Prepare a brew of ginger juice in castor oil. Take no more than 10 milliliters of castor oil and a teaspoonful of the juice of ginger. Drink this twice a day - at dawn and at dusk - on an empty stomach.

-#Lower the amount of pressure you are putting on your joints and cartilage so that you do not keep grinding away at their delicate fabric.

-#Get as many nutrients as you can that reduce joint inflammation and hopefully help repair your joint tissue.