Anemia Treatment

Ayurveda's Holistic Diet, Lifestyle, Management and Herbal Remedies For Anemia

 

Anemia treatment in the light of ayurvedic medicine presents the holistic approach for its management. This approach depends on clinical features, pathogenesis, diet and lifestyle, panchakarma purification, herbs and herbal formulation.

Anemia treatment is accomplished by holistic measures like herbs for anemia, herbal supplements, diet, lifestyle and by keeping the emotional health in Ayurvedic Medicine. Find more info about signs and symptoms, causes and its types.

Anemia Symptoms:

In ancient ayurvedic medicine, the sign and symptoms are clearly stated as when the person loses his natural color and it appears whitish particularly on skin, nails, tongue and eyes. The person appears lethargic, flaccid and exhausted. These signs and symptoms are typical of anemia.

Diet And Lifestyle Related Causes Of Anemia:

Definitely anemia is due to lack of iron in diet or other processes that take it from our diet to hemoglobin in cells. Any average person is not aware of this factor when he is eating. So there are another set of criteria is given in Ayurvedic medicine.

Anemia treatment in ayurvedic medicine needs all these factors - dietary, lifestyle and emotional - to be considered.

Dietary Factors:

1. Too much use of alkaline, acidic, salty and hot food can lead to anemia. Alkaline, acidic and salted food disturb the ph in the gut and in blood.
2. Another class of food is possessing opposite properties. The opposing active principle in food material exert degenerating effect in the long term. Common example is taking sweet milk with salt.
3. Excessive use of Alcohol.
4. Eating a lot of heavy to digest food. It can alter the normal digestion and absorption of nutrients from food.
5. Eating soil, gnawing at the nails are other common factors that can cause anemia.

Lifestyle Related Factors:

1. Overdoing the strenuous exercises and excessive sexual intercourse are also related to anemia.
2. Wrong use of Ayurvedic Panchakarma purification therapy.
3. Seasonal upsets like change in the rhythm of climate and seasons of a particular place. Seasonal disturbances are deeply related to our ecosystem, environment and pollution level so they must not be overlooked.
4. Retaining the natural urges of urine, stool etc.

Our Psychology:

Excessive anxiety, worry, fear, grief, and sexually perverted state of mind are also related to anemia. The commonsense reason is that under such circumstances, one tend to eat sparingly or to overeat.

The second reason is that such emotional upsets cause imbalance of autonomic nervous system - increase in sympathetic activity and suppression of parasympathetic activity - and both of these are detrimental to proper digestion and absorption.

The Pathogenesis Of Anemia In Ayurvedic Medicine:

The dietary, lifestyle and psychological factors vitiates Pitta, it gets accumulated and then it spreads and vitiates Sadhaka Pitta in heart (The main Pitta). Vata circulates it throughout the body and produces Anemia. This description is more medical (related to ayurvedic medicine) and you don't need to understand it if you are not a ayurvedic student!

Knowing Signs & Symptoms Is Also Essential For Anemia Treatment:

Prodromal Features:

Prodromal symptoms are present before the actual clinical features of anemia appear. They indicate toward anemia.

1. Tachycardia - the rate of heart beat increases at rest and during work or exercise.
2. Dryness.
3. Lack of sweating.
4. Fatigue.
5. Tendency of cracks in skin.
6. Increased quantity of saliva in mouth.
7. lethargy or looseness in body.
8. Inclination to eat soil.
9. Swelling below the eye.
10. Yellowish discoloration of stool and urine.
11. Indigestion.

General Symptoms And Signs Of Anemia:

1. Lack of blood or hemoglobin.
2. Lack of fat or lean and thin body.
3. Not feeling energetic.
4. Discoloration of complexion.
5. Looseness of body, laxity and flaccidity.

Types Of Anemia:

Ayurvedic medicine describes five basic types of anemia - Vata dominant, Pitta dominant, Kapha dominant, all three humors, soil eating related. Anemia treatment needs to be customized to each different type.

Clinical Features Of Vata Dominant Anemia:

1. Dryness in the body and blackish or brownish discoloration of complexion is present.
2. There is needle prick like pain, tremors, flatulence, vertigo, piercing pain in joints, and general body ache.

Clinical Features Of Pitta Dominant Anemia:

1. Yellowish tinge in stool, urine and eyes.
2. Burning sensation in body, thirst and increased body temperature.
3. Bitter taste in mouth, sour belching and indigestion.

Clinical Features Of Kapha Dominant Anemia:

1. Secretion of Saliva.

2. Drowsiness or sleepiness and heaviness in body.
3. Edema or swelling in body.
4. Whitish complexion of skin, urine, stool and face.

Anemia With All The Three Humors:

1. Fever.
2. Nausea, vomiting, indigestion.
3. Thirst.
4. Excessive fatigue at rest and inability to do work.
5. Very weakness, inability to perceive sensations properly i.e. to see through eyes, to hear through ears.

Anemia As A complication Of Eating Soil:

Eating soil is a habit that is present in females and children especially in villages. It is an indirect indication of anemia and can cause anemia.

Soil can vitiate any one or two or all the three humors depending upon its taste - astringent soil vitiating Vata, alkaline soil vitiating Pitta, sweet soil vitiating Kapha.

Besides vitiating humors, soil gets stuck in gut and interferes with absorption. There are added dangers for infection and worm infestation.

Clinical Features Of Anemia Due To Soil Eating:

1. Edema or swelling below the eyes, on cheeks, eyebrows, lower limbs, and abdomen.
2. Worm infestation in gut.
3. Loose motion mixed with blood and mucus.
4. Loss of strength, digestive power and complexion.

Complications In Anemia Treatment:

Some of these symptoms indicate that anemia has progressed and moved to complicated stage. This stage requires prolonged treatment.

1. Chronic or old case.
2. Very much dryness in body.
3. Yellowish discoloration of body with edema.
4. Scanty, formed, greenish stool with mucus.
5. Numbness in skin.
6. With excessive thirst, nausea and syncope.
7. Swelling on extremities and middle body thin, swelling on middle body with thin extremities.
8. Edema on penis, scrotal sac and anal area.
9. Enervated and exhausted look.
10. Hyperpyrexia or temperature is raised.
11. Uncontrollable diarrhea.

Line Of Anemia Treatment In Ayurvedic Medicine:

Ayurvedic anemia treatment is done according to following principles.

1. Avoidance of all the dietary, lifestyle and emotional factors that cause anemia is essential to anemia treatment.
2. Panchakarma Purification Therapy - First give internal Oleation and then use induced purgation. By doing this panchakarma purification first, the efficacy of herbs is increased in anemia treatment.
3. Diet and herbs in anemia treatment should be in accordance with affected bodily humors.

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