Hypertension And Homoeopathic Management

Hypertension

Hypertension, also known as high or raised blood pressure, is a condition in which the blood vessels have persistently raised pressure above 140/90 mmHg. Blood pressure is the force exerted by circulating blood against the walls of the body’s arteries, the major blood vessels in the body.

Symptoms of Hypertension

Hypertension is usually asymptomatic until the diagnosis is made. It is also known as ‘silent killer’ since it cause damage to cardiovascular system. There are no specific symptoms to diagnose hypertension; however any of following symptoms may be present.

1. Early morning headache 
2. Vertigo
3. Nose bleeding.
4. Irregular heart rhythms.
5. Change in vision.
6. Buzzing sound in the ears
7. Shortness of breath
8. Fatigue
9. Nausea and vomiting
10. Confusion
11. Anxiety
12. Chest pain
13. Problem with memory and understanding.

Risk factors

1. Salt consumption
2. Harmful use of alcohol
3. Low intake of fruits and vegetables
4. Lack of physical activity
5. Being overweight or obese
6. Saturated fat and trans fats
7. Tobacco use

Classification of Hypertension

Classify patient as per below description -

Diet

• Eat more fruits, vegetables, and low-fat foods.
• Cut back on foods those are high in saturated fat cholesterol and Trans fats.
• Eat more whole-grains foods, fish, poultry and nuts.
• Limit sodium, sweets, sugary drinks and red meats.

Exercise

• Ten minutes of brisk or moderate walking three times a day
• Thirty minutes a day of cycling or stationary cycling
• Hiking
• Desk tread milling or pedal pushing
• Weight training
• Swimming.
• Jogging
• Jumping rope
• Aerobics

HOMOEOPATHIIC TREATMENT OF HYPERTENSION:

Homoeopathy offers successful treatment for the all stages of Hypertension

Dr. Reckeweg's R85 10 drops in half cup water 3 times a day, help in controlling blood pressure in all stages of hypertension, its help the new cases and in chronic cases help in controlling blood pressure , where it’s not controllable even after standard allopathic treatment.

HOMEOPATHIC REMEDIES FOR TREATMENT OF HYPERTENSION

1. Dr. Reckeweg’s Apis mellifica 
   • Headache with vertigo
   • Inflammation of kidney
   • Tired feeling
   • Redness of eyes
   • Swelling and burning of skin
2. Dr. Reckeweg’s Aurum metallicum
   • Headache
   • Vertigo
   • Palpitation
   • Sensation as if the heart stopped beating for two or three seconds, immediately followed by a tumultuous rebound, with sinking at the epigastrium
   • Pulse rapid, feeble, irregular. Hypertrophy. High Blood Pressure-Valvular lesions of arterio-sclerotic nature.
3. Dr. Reckeweg’s Belladonna-
   • Violent palpitations
   • Throbbing through the body
   • Buzzing sound in ears
   • Nausea and vomiting
   • Headache
4. Dr. Reckeweg’s Coffea cruda-
   • Headache feel tightness 
   • Violent irregular palpitation especially after excessive joy or surprise.
   • Rapid high tension pulse and urinary suppression.
5. Dr. Reckeweg’s Conium maculatum-
   • High blood pressure with vertigo on lying down and when turning over in bed
   • Headache
   • Stupefying
   • Nausea and vomiting
   • Nose bleeding
   • Dim sighted
   • Arteriosclerosis
6. Dr. Reckeweg’s Glonoinum-
   • Headache
   • Vertigo
   • Sun headache
   • Heart beat heard in the ears
   • Nausea and vomiting
   • Fainting
   • Palpitation
   • Shortness of breath
7. Dr. Reckewegs’s Lachesis mutus-
   • Palpitations during climacteric
   • Constricted feeling causing palpitation with anxiety
   • Fainting spells, especially during climacteric
   • Irregular beats.
8. Dr. Reckewegs’s Lycopodium clavatum-
   • Confusion
   • Headache
   • Vertigo
   • Dim vision
   • Buzzing sound in ears
   • Palpitation at night
9. Dr. Reckewegs’s Lycopus virginicus
   • Frontal headache often succeeded by laboured heart
   • Nosebleed
   • Rapid heart action of smokers
   • Pulse weak, irregular and intermittent
   • Palpitaion with constriction around chest
10. Dr. Reckewegs’s Natrium muriaticum-
    • Headache
    • Buzzing sound in ears
    • Palpitation
    • Shortness of breath
    • Constriction of chest
    • Irregular Pulse
11. Dr. Reckewegs’s Nux vomica-
    • Headache in sunshine
    • Vertigo in morning
    • Epistaxis
    • Nausea
    • Shortness of breath
12. Dr. Reckewegs’s Opium 
    • Vertigo, lightness of head in old people.
    • Dull feeling
    • Great drowsiness
    • Swollen dark, puffed face
    • Pulse slow and full
13. Dr. Reckewegs’s Rauwolfia serpentine- 
    • High blood pressure without marked atheromatous changes in the vessels.
14. Dr. Reckewegs’s Secal corrunatum
    • Hypertension accompanied with diabetes
    • Congestive headache with pale face
    • Angina pectoris
    • Dyspnoea and oppression, with cramp in diaphragm
    • Boring pain in chest
    • Palpitation, with contracted and intermittent pulse.
15. Dr. Reckewegs’s Veratrum album-

• Palpitation with anxiety
• Headache with nausea
• Rapid audible respiration. 
• Pulse irregular, feeble
• Intermittent action of heart in feeble persons with some hepatic obstruction. 

COMPLICATIONS OF HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE [HYPERTENSION]

1. Brain Stroke
2. Aneurysm
3. Heart Failure
4. Kidney Damage
5. Vision Loss
6. Peripheral Heart Disease
7. Metabolic Syndrome 
8. Heart Attack
9. Trouble Thinking or Remembering
10. Erectile Dysfunction

Treatment for complication of high blood pressure

1. Brain Stroke R54 Drops 
2. Heart Failure R2 and R3 Drops 
3. Kidney Damage R58 R64 Drops
4. Vision Loss R78 Eye Drops
5. Trouble Thinking or Remembering R54 Drops
6. Erectile Dysfunction R41 Drops

About the author- Dr. Sushil Kumar Vats (Senior Consultant)

Qualification:

1. B.H.M.S.(1988-89) from Nehru Homoeopathic Medical College & Hospital,Delhi.
2. M.D.(Homeopathy), Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University, Agra.

Honors:

1. Member- Homeopathy Advisory Committee, Govt. of Delhi from 1999 to 2014.
2. Member- Executive Committee, Delhi Homeopathic Anusandhan Parishad, a research body of Delhi Govt. since 1999 to 2017
3. Special Invitee- Scientific Advisory Committee, Delhi Homeopathic Anusandhan Parishad, Govt. of Delhi, since 1999 to 2017
4. Dr.Yudhveer Singh Award (1997) by the board of Homoeopathic System of Medicine, Govt. of Delhi.
5. Examiner- Board of Homoeopathic System of Medicine, New Delhi.
6. . Honored by Pareek Foundation for Homoeopathic Research, Agra for “Outstanding Services rendered to Homoeopathic Journalism.