Heart Disease Treatments

We offer a very effective ayurveda treatment for Heart Related Diseases.

Cardiovascular Disease Treatments

Cardiovascular Disease is any of a number of specific diseases that affect the heart itself and/or the blood vessel system, especially the veins and arteries leading to and from the heart. Research on disease dimorphism suggests that women who suffer with cardiovascular disease usually suffer from forms that affect the blood vessels while men usually suffer from forms that affect the heart muscle itself. Known or associated causes of cardiovascular disease include unhealthy ratios of the two smallest lipoproteins (see LDL and HDL), hyperlipidemia (including hypercholesterolemia), elevated blood glucose levels, i.e. diabetes mellitus, upper normal and high blood pressure, i.e.hypertension, Lp-PLA2, lipoprotein(a) and hyperhomocysteinemia, among others.

Types of cardiovascular disease include :

Atherosclerosis Heart Disease

Atherosclerosis – Ruptures of atherosclerotic plaque within the artery wall. This both showers clot inducing debris into the blood stream and induces clots within the blood flowing inside the artery and has been identified to be the most common mechanism producing ischemia.

Ischaemic Heart Disease

Ischaemic Heart Disease – disease of the heart muscle itself, characterized by reduced blood supply to the cardiac muscles i.e. myocardium.

Heart Failure

Heart failure, also called congestive heart failure (or CHF), and congestive cardiac failure (CCF), is a condition that can result from any structural or functional cardiacdisorder that impairs the ability of the heart to fill with or pump a sufficient amount of blood throughout the body. Therefore leading to the heart and body's failure.
  • Cor pulmonale, a failure of the right side of the heart.

Hypertensive Heart Disease

Hypertensive heart disease is heart disease caused by high blood pressure, especially localised high blood pressure. Conditions that can be caused by hypertensive heart disease include :
  • Left ventricular hypertrophy
  • Coronary heart disease
  • (Congestive) heart failure
  • Hypertensive cardiomyopathy
  • Cardiac arrhythmias

Inflammatory heart disease

Tissue surrounding it :
  • Endocarditis – inflammation of the inner layer of the heart, the endocardium. The most common structures involved are the heart valves.
  • Inflammatory cardiomegaly
  • Myocarditis – inflammation of the myocardium, the muscular part of the heart.

Valvular heart disease

Valvular heart disease is disease process that affects one or more valves of the heart. There are four major heart valve which may be affected by valvular heart disease, including the tricuspid and aortic valves in the right side of the heart, as well as the mitral and aortic valves in the left side of the heart.

Heart disease before the age of 80 is not God's will but is due to our own fault's. Heart has major role in our body system. In Ayurveda, heart is concerned not only through its physical value, but mental and spiritual also, thus the care of heart most important.

According is ancient Indian philosophy and Ayurveda, heart takes higher position not only by its anatomical and physiological but also by its mental and spiritual value.

In Ayurveda heart is seat of - Par ojas , Vyan vayu ,adhaka Pitta , Avalambak Kaph and Mana.

According is charak, heart has been mentioned as the seat of Consciousness. The human body consists of six component (four limb, trunk & head & neck), the Indriyas (Five Sensory organ along with their object), the wisdom, the mind and the soul – all of these dependent upon normal functioning of the heart.

The ancient Indian Physician laid down basic principles for the maintenance of normal positive health and pronounced certain preventive measures against the cardiac aliments, they have laid stress on :
  • Achaar - normal conduct
  • Ahaar - diet
  • Vyayaam - physical exercise
  • Yoga - yoga

Causes of heart disease in Ayurveda

  • Physical exertion
  • Drastic & excessive purgation & enema.
  • Anxiety.
  • Fear
  • Terror
  • Faulty management of disorder.
  • Suppression of vomiting & ama.
  • Injury

Symptoms of Heart Disease

  • Abnormal Complexion.
  • Fainting
  • Fever due to Inflammatory heart disease.
  • Cough
  • Hiccough due to mitral Regurgitation or stenosis.
  • Breathlessness.
  • Distaste of mouth due to coronary insufficiency.
  • Tendency of Emesis.
  • Anorexia.
  • Thirst
  • Chest Pain
  • Giddiness

Prevention of heart disease

Diet

  1. Protein – Normal in take of 50 – 60 gms.
  2. Fat – Cholesterol is to kept in low limit. Avoid animal fat, pork, beef, meat, fats, Dairy product like cream butter, ghee. Carbohydrate – Carbohydrate are responsible for endogenous Synthesis of cholesterol and triglycerides hence excessive is to be avoided.
  3. Calories – Obesity burdens the heart. Reduction of calories help to lose weight.
  4. Vitamin – Nicotinic acid reduces lipids in blood.
  5. Adequate potassium & calcium in blood required to prevent arrhythimias
  6. Miscellaneous : Smoking & alcohol are restricted.
  7. Use less amount of salt (daily 2-3 gm)
  8. Take food before three hour when going to sleep.
  9. Take large amount of fibrous food like (Salads) High Roughage diet.
  10. Take adequate amount of Garlic & Ginger because Garlic lowers the Cholesterol level & Ginger reduces the blood clot.
  11. Morning walk upto 2-3 km.
  12. "Sawashan" is very useful in heart disease.
  13. Avoid the hostile life style.

Treatment of heart disease

The primary approch to health care in Ayurveda was the prevention one & then came the role of drugs. A combination of some herbal medicine is very useful in heart disease.