Hemiplegia is paralysis that affects only one side of your body. This symptom is often a key indicator of severe or life-threatening conditions like a stroke, but can also happen with conditions and circumstances that aren’t as dangerous. Try not having high blood pressure.
Loss of strength in the arm, leg, and sometimes face on one side of the body. Hemiplegia refers to a severe or complete loss of strength, whereas hemiparesis refers to a relatively mild loss of strength.
Hemiplegia refers to the severe or complete loss of motor function on one side of the body. Depending on the side of the body that is affected, hemiplegia is further classified as right or left hemiplegia. Hemiplegia is usually caused by brain damage localized to the cerebral hemisphere opposite the affected side.
The most common cause of hemiplegia is stroke, which damages the corticospinal tracts in one hemisphere of the brain. Other causes of hemiplegia include trauma eg. spinal cord injury; brain tumours; and brain infections.
Hemiplegia symptoms involve muscle weakness or stiffness on one side, muscle spasticity or permanently contracted muscle, difficulty in walking, poor balance, trouble grabbing objects.
For better results, ayurveda always employs external treatments along with internal medicines. The external treatments are devised such that they are beneficial for relieving the stiffness in muscular system and also for stimulating the internal organs to balance doshas.
Oil massage: Thailas (oils) like Mahamasha, dhanwantaram, and ksheerabala are extensively used to strengthen the muscular system and reduce the tension associated with it.
Panchakarma treatment:
Panchakarma therapies are very effective in rendering immense benefits while treating paralysis.
Basti – Considered as the mother of all panchakarma treatments, it cleanses the disturbances in dosha levels
Nasya – Administration of medicated oils through nostrils
Oil application and massaging particular parts of the body also yields results for patients who do not have excess level of kapha dosha.
Shiro Abhyanga – application of oil in head
Sharera Abhyanga – application of oil in full body
Pada abhyanga – application of oil in lower limbs.
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