The Scope of Homeopathy in Various
Auto Immune Diseases
The
environment where we live is packed with various harmful agents like bacteria,
virus, allergy inducing particles (antigens), chemicals, dusts, pollutants etc.
Every moment they are entering inside our body either through the air that we
breathe or foods or drinks that we take or through skin by contact with. Inside
our body there is a defence unity called body immune system that
consist of various immune cells.Those immune cells of our immune system
acts like well trained shoulders at the situation whenever any foreign
particles like virus, bacteria or harmful substance enter inside our body they
fight with them to kill and protect our body and cells from their attack. So
every moment our immune cells are engaged in searching and fighting with the
foreign substances to keep our body safe and healthy.
BUT,
sometimes our immune system get confuse to recognize between our own cell and
outer foreign particles and start attacking our own cells thinking of foreign
particle by which some health issues are developed. This is called auto immune
disease. There are as many as 80 types of autoimmune diseases. Some common auto immune
diseases are
- Rheumatoid arthritis -
inflammation of joints and surrounding tissues
- leucoderma (vitiligo) - white
patches on the skin
- Psoriasis - a skin condition
that causes redness and irritation as well as thick, flaky,silver-white patches
- SLE - affects skin, joints,
kidneys, brain, and other organs
- Celiac sprue - a reaction to
gluten (found in wheat, rye, and barley) that causes damage to the lining
of the small intestine
- Inflammatory bowel disease - a
group of inflammatory diseases of the colon and small intestine
- Type 1 diabetes - destruction
of insulin producing cells in the pancreas
- Sjögren’s syndrome - destroys
the glands that produce tears and saliva
- Pernicious anemia- decrease in
red blood cells caused by inability to absorb vitamin B-12
WHY THE
AUTO IMMUNE DISEASES OCCUR
In medical
science it does not have any specific cause why it occurs. But there certain
factors that may responsible for developing auto immune diseases.
Many
clinical surveys say that the environmental factor plays a major role in
developing various auto immune diseases. Now a days our environment has changed
a lot. Everywhere there is pollution. The airs, water, foods all are polluted.
50 years ago there were not so many types of auto immune diseases. The atmosphere
was not so polluted like present age. During those period peoples were taking
healthy foods not so much adulterated foods. The air was clean not so
much polluted like present day. So as the science and technology develops side
by side brings lots of negative things. The pollution level rises. The ozone
level is gradually decreasing in the air. The water level is gradually
decreasing. There has been a lot of changes in the atmosphere in compare to the
past few decades years back. Not only in the external world the changes is
marked inside us. Our stress level has increased a lot. Our though process has
changed a lot. Our work style has changed a lot. Our mind setup has changes a
lot. Our perception towards a subject has been changed a lot. The positiveness
and positive attitude has been decreased a lot. Our anxiety, fear, stress,
level has increased in compare to past age. The attitude of a person has
changed. Anger, irritability, greedy, intolerance attitude has been increased.
Physical activities have reduced a lot.
In fact
the whole things have been changed from external world to our internal world
drastically in the course of time. But our body, our organs, our cells are same
as millions year back, working the same function like before. The changing of
environment, the changing of emotional level, the changing of psychological
level putting tremendous negative impact on our body, in our cells
specifically in our immune endocrine system. So our innocent simple reacting
immune system has been disturbed and acting abnormally as a result so many auto
immune diseases are creating and destroying the human society. This is the real
threat now in the medical science to cure the auto immune disease as because
there is no treatment has been discovered to cure a auto immune disease except
managing the symptoms for temporarily basis.
Scope of
Homeopathy Treatment-
In this
regards homeopathy has a prospective role of treatment in the auto immune
disease as because homeopathy treatment is not only based on the disease
symptoms alone but the person’s psychological and emotional symptoms also taken
care which are otherwise known as the root trigger factors for the development
of the disease. Every individual has its own trigger factors either in his
psychological level or emotional level or physical level or genetic level.
Homeopathy treatment finds the thread of root cause of the triggers factors and treat accordingly, thus helps to bring back the equilibrium of the body’s immune system in a natural way to normal state thus may help to cure the auto immune diseases. For example a person of having psychological trauma in past life like death of any of his/her nearest or dearest one and that makes him/her to a depressive state and in the course of time develops irritability and after a few years develops psoriasis. So a homeopath takes the detail symptoms not only about the psoriasis symptoms of the person but his/her past life event of any psychological trauma and his/her present irritability nature and basing on all those symptoms the medicine is choose and if given can able to cure the disease. So there are not same set of medicines for a particular disease which can be repeated for every patient.
Homeopathy treatment finds the thread of root cause of the triggers factors and treat accordingly, thus helps to bring back the equilibrium of the body’s immune system in a natural way to normal state thus may help to cure the auto immune diseases. For example a person of having psychological trauma in past life like death of any of his/her nearest or dearest one and that makes him/her to a depressive state and in the course of time develops irritability and after a few years develops psoriasis. So a homeopath takes the detail symptoms not only about the psoriasis symptoms of the person but his/her past life event of any psychological trauma and his/her present irritability nature and basing on all those symptoms the medicine is choose and if given can able to cure the disease. So there are not same set of medicines for a particular disease which can be repeated for every patient.
But at the
same time the general management therapy whatever is required for the patient
should be kept continued along with homeopathy treatment.
Autoimmune diseases are a group of illnesses where
the body’s immune system turns against itself.They are similar to
allergy-related conditions because in both the immune system is over-active.
Many
clinical surveys say that the environmental factor plays a major role in
developing various auto immune diseases. Now a days our environment has changed
a lot. Everywhere there is pollution. The airs, water, foods all are polluted.
50 years ago there were not so many types of auto immune diseases. In fact the
whole things have been changed from external world to our internal world
drastically in the course of time. But our body, our organs, our cells are same
as millions year back, working the same function like before. The changing of
environment, the changing of emotional level, the changing of psychological
level putting tremendous negative impact on our body, in our cells
specifically in our immune endocrine system. So our innocent simple reacting
immune system has been disturbed and acting abnormally as a result so many auto
immune diseases are creating and destroying the human society. This is the real
threat now in the medical science to cure the auto immune disease as because
there is no treatment has been discovered to cure a auto immune disease except
managing the symptoms for temporarily basis.
In all these conditions the body’s
immune system is inappropriately activated and various organs become it’s
target as if they were foreign invaders.The causes or instigating factors are
unknown. Hereditary predisposition may play a role, as may some environmental
factors. In considering treatment, one must first have a clear understanding of
what one is treating with any modality used. Allopathic treatments involve suppression of
immunity by steroids and other invasive medications who have serious side effects
and affect vital organs like liver, kidneys, brain etc.On the other hand well
chosen constitutional homeopathy not only strengthens the immunity but also can
reverse the autoimmune process which is seen clinically by the autoimmunity
titres in the blood studies.
Homeopathy believes in restoration
of homeostasis (inner balance), enabling natural reversal of the disease,
resolution of inflammatory process and restoration of normal organ function in
cases where the damage was not too severe, including thyroid, kidney, lung,
joints, platelets (ITP cases), etc. In most cases of autoimmune disease this is
my preferred modality to start with, complementing with all other modalities
discussed above when necessary.
Homeopathy treatment finds the thread of root cause of the triggers factors and treat accordingly, thus helps to bring back the equilibrium of the body’s immune system in a natural way to normal state thus may help to cure the auto immune diseases.
We are presenting here two two cases
of autoimmune diaseses namely Sjogrens syndrome and Ulcerative colitis with
biochemical as well as clinical evidence thus proving the efficacy of
homeopathic medicines over contemporary medicine.
