For those patients with thyroid syndromes, yoga is supposed to be an alternative cure. Further, yoga’s technique such as gentle stretching and emphasize on breathing can be applied almost anyone. More so, yoga is a rewarding therapy which helps the body a lot, especially in terms of boosting energy, depleting the stress level, flexible muscles, stiffening the joints and many more.

Symptoms of Thyroid Problems

Few main symptoms of Thyroid Problems are :

1) Muscle and Joint Pains
2) Neck Discomfort/Enlargement.
3) Menstrual Irregularities and Fertility Problems.

Yoga to Cure Thyroid

Yoga for thyroid afflicted patents involves a particular pose as an exercise. This is also thought to be a great benefit to give respite from thyroid disease. The pose is known as sarvangasan or shoulder stand.

To begin with performing yoga shoulder stand, the patient lays flat on his back. With legs strained together, he raises them till they form a right angle to his shoulder. Thereafter, with chin tucked to chest, he rests his body weight onto shoulder and elbows. Arms extended to support his hips. This yoga exercise goes for some time until the patent becomes able to do shoulder stand for a full two minutes.

The thyroid gland is a chief part responsible to keep correct order of physical weight and youthful look. Yoga stimulates the thyroid gland to enable its function at its full efficiency. Along with the thyroid gland, the pituitary gland also gets stimulated thus resulting good improvement to body function. In addition to Sarvangasana, there are other Asanas allowed for curing thyroid such as Naukasana, Uttanpadasana, Matsyasana and Yashtikasana. They are known to bring forth better performance and quick heal to thyroid patients.