Hormonal / Endocrine


Diabetes Mellitus

The most common metabolic disorder encountered in clinical practice. Type 1 is due to auot-immune pancreatic islet cell destruction. Type 2 Due to tissue insulin resistence associated with increasing age, obesity, family history and pregnancy.

Symptoms:
Hyperglycemia - Frequent urination, Always hunger, Thirsty, Debility, Genital Tching, Excess of sweat, delayed healing of wounds.
Hypoglycemia - Excess of sweating, confusion and anxiety, heart palpitations, fainting and shakiness.

Complications: Diabetic retinopathy, Diabetic rephropathy, Diabetic neuropathy, cardiovascular disease, diabetic foor ulcers, cognitive deficit.

Pregnancy and diabetes: Already diagnosed diabetes women getting pregnancy, pre-existing diabetes. A woman who hasn't been diagnosed diabetes exhibit high blood glucose level during pregnancy - getational Diabetes.

Men with diabetes: Men with diabetes are prone to having issues with infertility due to the following conditions that are most common with Diabetes.

  1. Erectile dysfunction
  2. Retarded ejaculation
  3. Retrograde ejaculation
  4. Reduced sperm quantity

Management in Ayurveda:

  1. Diet is an essential part of the management of diabetes.
  2. Diet is based on healthy eating principles

Reasons for diet:

  1. Weight control.
  2. Blood glucose control
  3. Prevention and management of short term and long term complications of diabetes.

Benefits of panchakarma:

  1. Helps to reduce sugar levels.
  2. Helps to increase functioning and secretion of pancreas.
  3. Prevention and management of short term and long term complications of diabetes.
  4. Increases fat metabolism.
  5. Correctional of hormonal imbalance.
  6. Activates digestive system.
  7. Best way to help high sugar is balanced diet, proper exercise, planned detoxification process with panchakarma.

Overcoming with Ayurveda:

  1. Panchakarma Therapy
  2. Rejuvenation and aphrodisiac treatments
  3. Internal medications

The thyroid glands are part of the endocrine system. Thyroid harmone act on almost every kind of cell in your body to increase cellular activity or metabolism. If there is too much or too little throid hormone, the metabolism of your entire body is impacted.

There are numerous things that can go wrong with throid gland, but mostly they fall into two categories.

  1. Hyperthyroidism
  2. Hypothyroidism

Hypothyroidism:Results from inadequate production of thyroid hormone.

Symptoms:

  1. Vertigo
  2. Weight gain
  3. Mood disturbances
  4. Easy fatigability
  5. Tiredness
  6. Lethargy
  7. Slowness of memory
  8. Intellect
  9. Menstural irregularities
  10. Cold intolerance
  11. Dry rough skin
  12. Thin brittle hair
  13. Hair fall
  14. Muscle stiffness
  15. Weakness
  16. Constipation

Ayurvedic Treatment:

  1. Medhya Rasayana
  2. Shiro- abyangam
  3. Nasya karma
  4. Virechanam
  5. Deepana
  6. Pachana drugs which keepup body metabolism is recommended

Hypothyroidism:Hyperthyroidism is a condition in which the thyroid over produces hormones.

Symptoms:

  1. Diarrhoea
  2. Heat intolerance
  3. Weight loss
  4. Hair & skin changes
  5. Enlarged thyroid gland
  6. Menstural cycle changes
  7. Muscle Weakness

Treatment: Line of treatment in Hyperthyroidism, i.e.., done by combating Theekshnagni, Dhatu paka shamana and Ojovardhaka oushadhi

Shodhana chikitsa:

Prevention is better than cure Hypo and Hyper thyroidism is a life-style disorder.

By following healthy regimens are,

  • Dinacharya
  • Rutucharya
  • Proper Ruthu shodhana
  • Avasthanusara chikitsa
    • Panchakarma explained here may provide better care and improves the Quality of life. Panchakarma alone doesnot act as a whole treatment, along with shamana aushadhi followed by Rasayana helps in removing the Murbidity entirely.

All of us love to have a well built bodies, or at least not to be obese, and we have the right to think like that, because obesity is not just a cosmetic concern, its also a risk for some health problems, such as heart disease, diabetes and the high blood pressure and others.

Obesity is defined as a person who on account of the inordinate increase of fat & flash is disfigured with pendulous, buttocks, belly and breasts and whose increase bulk is not matched by a corresponding increase in energy.

Causes:

  1. Physical Activity- Sedentary habit
  2. Pyscological factor- Emotional instability- over eating.
  3. Economic background- Consume lots of proteins, fats and carbohydrate in diet.
  4. Endocrinal causes- Hypothyroidism
  5. Medical conditions
  6. Genetics

Complications of obesity:

  1. Heart disease
  2. Stroke
  3. Hypertension
  4. Metabolic Syndrome
  5. Sexual problems
  6. Social isolation
  7. Physical disability
  8. Osteo-Arthritis
  9. Discomfort
  10. Obesity

Treatments: Dietary changes, Yoga, Exercise, Prescription medication, Panchakarma

Obesity in Female:

  1. Menstruation
    • Irregular cycle
    • Menarche
    • Amenorrhoea
  2. Sexual function
    • Difficulty of performance reduced desire
    • Arousal
    • Orgasm
  3. Fertility
    • Anovulation
    • PCOS
    • Infertility
  4. Pregnancy
    • Fetal anomalies
    • Miscarriage

Obesity in Male:

  1. Erectile dysfunction
  2. Reduced Testicular volume
  3. Reduced normal motile sperm
  4. Reduced Fertility

Treatment includes:

  • Dietary changes
  • Proper Exercise
  • Internal Medications
  • Panchakarma Procedures
  1. Udwartanam- Deep dry massage with herbal powder.
  2. Vasti procedure is the main treatment of obesity.

Benefits of Ayurveda treatment:

  • Reducing BMI & management of body weight.
  • Freedom from synthetic medicines.
  • Preventing further complications like heart disease, diabets, breathing disorder.

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