Sir, I am suffering from ulcerative colitis from last 7 years. I have taken muscle 400 mg BD, entofoam twice a day, sysfol 5 mg. Now my medicine has changed to mesacol supositiry twice, vegaz od, and entofoam twice a day. I stopped taking milk after discussion with doctor and not eating raw fruit and salad but overall I am taking healthy food including curd and lassi in my regular diet however I am fond of tea and consumed 4 to 5 cup daily. Now my problem is that I faced cramp in my body any day even if I do some physical work I may get cramp which is sign of deficiency of any required vitamin or protein another problem is my mouth got dry if I speak for one or two minutes. My weight is continuously increasing. Kindly suggest what should I do. Is taking multivitamin capsule will cure of my cramp and all.

Dr. Mukul SaldiAyurveda20yrs exp

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Ulcerative colitis is a chronic disease of colon .Its inflammatory in nature and runs into chronic phase with periodic submissions and excaberations. Usually decending colon and especially sigmoid colon is in volved and there are structural changes in colon. The exact cause is unknown and starts between age of 20 to 40 years which is the �most productive �period of life. It upsets the whole lifestyle of a person. Frequent stools and blood in stool are two cardinal signs of ulcerative colitis. Patient becomes too weak, the Hb%levles fall because of blood loss and due to frequent diarrhea, dehydration sets in Thre is no permanent cure of ulcerative colitis in allopathy though patiens experience symptomatic relief with the help of conventional treatment which includes the use of steroids also. The use of steroids lead to many side effects and sometime even after high doses of medicines ,the patient is left untreated. The aim of Ayurveda is to provide safer and effective alternative treatment to the patients suffering from this chronic disease, restore their normal bowelmovement and improve their Hb% levels by minimizing blood loss �and help in improving the quality of life. Ulcerative colitis is mentioned in Ayurvedic texts as raktatisara which is an advanced stage of pittatisara. Its a disease of purish vahi srotas. Some effective Ayurvedic medicines in trement of ulcerative colitis: Udumbar kwath, lodhra twak churna, mustamool churana ,nagakeshar, mukta panchamrit ras, shankh bhasm, mukt bhasm ,praval bhasm, kutaj ghan vati and enema of udumbar kwatha re few of effective remedies of ulcerative colitis in Ayurveda. As the patient starts improving ,the allopathic medicines are gradually reduced in �dosage and frequency. 

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