Management of spinal cord disorders through Varmam and Thokkanam - Siddha external therapy methods

5^th International Conference and Exhibition on Natural & Alternative Medicine

September 05-07, 2016 Beijing, China

Shinnaraj Selvarajan

Siddha Regional Research Institute, India

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: Altern Integr Med

Abstract :

In recent days, all over the world the human race is suffering from various spinal cord disorders, which are defined as a group of disorders that affect the spinal cord including the nerves, tendons, muscles, and joints and supporting structures such as inter-vertebral discs etc., thus producing simple to severe pain. Due to the above mentioned conditions, the human beings are not able to perform their day to day activities in appropriate manner. The same may lead to some level of disability and morbidity. To overcome these issues, the general public is depending on some analgesics, anti-inflammatory and so on. The said medicines produce only symptomatic relief and the sufferers have to depend on those drugs for long time. In addition to that prolonged use of pain killers are creating the way for various adverse effects such as stomach upset, constipation, diarrhea and dizziness. Apart from that resistance and tolerance may partly account for the diminishing analgesic responses. Keeping in view of the above mentioned unavoidable effects of the allopathic medicines to find out a new method for treating the spinal cord issues is the need of the hour. To counter the problems related to spinal cord various methods and medicines are mentioned / documented in Siddha classical literatures/texts. Among them Varmam (pressure manipulation therapy) and Thokkanam (physical manipulation therapy) are very effective external therapy methods in treating the spinal disorders. Varmam and Thokkanam tone up nervous system, boost blood circulation, rejuvenate and eliminate toxic substances. These methods are in practice for more than the period of 5000 years in the Indian continent. After observing and confirming the effectiveness of these methods, the outpatient department at Siddha Regional Research Institute (SRRI), Thiruvananthapuram (Tvpm), Kerala, India is extending the support and treated more than one thousand patients without any noticeable contraindications. The team of physicians of SRRI, Tvpm came to observe through Integrative Medicine Outcomes Scale (IMOS) that these external therapy methods are remarkably improving the quality of life of the sufferers of spinal cord disorders.

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