Heart diseases or cardiac disorders are those diseases which are concerned with abnormal action of heart. There are various heart diseases which commonly affect people such as:

• Congestive heart failure
• Myocardial infraction
• Coronary artery disease
• Cardiac arrhythmia
• Hypertension
• Pericarditis
• Endocarditis
• Congenital heart disease
• Pericardial effusion
• Atherosclerosis
• Myocarditis
• Valvular heart diseases
• Cardiomegaly

Homeopathic treatment of heart diseases

Homeopathy is one of the most popular holistic systems of medicine. The selection of remedy is based upon the theory of individualization and symptoms similarity by using holistic approach. This is the only way through which a state of complete health can be regained by removing all the sign and symptoms from which the patient is suffering. The aim of homeopathy is not only to treat heart diseases but to address its underlying cause and individual susceptibility. As far as therapeutic medication is concerned, several remedies are available to treat heart diseases that can be selected on the basis of cause, sensations and modalities of the complaints.  For individualized remedy selection and treatment, the patient should consult a qualified homeopathic doctor in person. There are following remedies which are helpful in the treatment of heart diseases:

Digitalis Purpura – digitalis is one of the best remedies for heart diseases; sudden violent beating of heart with disturbed rhythm; sensation as if heart would stop beating if she moved. Slightest motion increases the anxiety and palpitation. Fluttering all over when the patient moves which slows again when he settles back quietly. Always wants to lie on back.

Pulse – pulse is irregular, intermitting at every 3^rd, 5^th, or 7^th beat. Slow, strong pulse when rheumatism is threatening the heart.

cyanosis – body is cyanosed due to cardiac spells. Bluish paleness of lips and face. Fingers become blue with slow pulse and sense of faintness and weakness.

sinking feeling in the stomach, it seems as if he would die, not better by eating, associated with cardiac troubles.

Pericarditis; heart dialated and hypertrophied; cardiac failure following fevers.

Naja – dragging and anxiety in pericardia; feeling of weight on heart. Angina pains extending to nape of neck, left shoulder and arm with anxiety and fear of death. With the heart symptoms pain in forehead and temples. Pulse irregular in force. Threatened paralysis of heart, body cold, pulse slow, weak, irregular, tremulous. Acute and chronic endocarditis. Palpitation. Stitching pain in the region of heart. Damaged heart after infectious disease. marked symptoms of low tension.

Kalmia latifolia – heart diseases; weak, slow pulse; fluttering of heart, with anxiety. Palpitation; worse leaning forward. Gouty and rheumatic metastasis of heart. Tachycardia and pressure from epigastrium toward the heart. Sharp pains take away the breath. Shooting through chest above heart into shoulder blades. Frequent pulse; heart action tumultuous, rapid and visible. Paroxysms of anguish around heart.

Cactus G – endocarditis with mitral insufficiency together with violent and rapid action. Acts best in the incipiency of cardiac incompetence, heart weakness of arteriosclerosis. Tobacco heart. Violent palpitation; worse lying on left side, at approach of menses. Angina pectoris, with suffocation, cold sweat, and ever-present iron-band feeling. Pain in apex, shooting down left arm. Palpitation, with vertigo, dyspnoea, flatulence. Constriction; very acute pains and stitches in heart; pulse feeble, irregular, quick, without strength. Endocardial murmurs, excessive pulse, increased pericardial dullness, enlarged ventricle; Low blood pressure.

Gelsemium – excellent remedy for heart diseases patient fears that heart will cease to beat if he does not move, so he thinks it is very necessary to keep in motion. This sensation comes on more during the sleep from which the patient wakes up in distress.

Pulse is very weak, soft, full and flowing. Pulse is slow when patient is at rest but becomes fast on motion. Irregular pulse and palpitation during fever. Weak, slow pulse of old age; there is sensation of goneness in the region of heart, which often extends in to the stomach, involving lower part of the left side of the chest and across the stomach creating a sensation of hunger. Gelsemium has the nervous hunger or gnawing.

Apis Mel – heart diseases in which cardiac inflammation and dropsy is common; great feeling of suffocation, it seems he would smother for want of air; every contraction of heart shakes the body; pulse not steady, irregular, intermitting every third or fourth beat; restless but relief in no position; distress in paroxysm lasting half an hour or more, generally taking place in the morning; great prostration; Pericarditis and hydro pericardium.

Aurum met – pure cardiac hypertrophy without dilatation, with increased force of heart-stroke and hyperemia of lungs, aggravation from any exertion, as walking up hill, and feeling of crushing weight under sternum and as if blood would burst through chest. Atheroma of the heart and blood vessels with its consequences.

Ferrum met – anemia masked behind plethora and congestions, pale color of mucous membrane, drawing constrictive pain in cardiac region; palpitation with fear, has to move about,  can neither sit or stand; better by walking slowly about; aggravation during cold weather.

Glonine – excessive throbbing of heart, pulse beats with increasing force and frequency; throbbing in the vessels of neck, pulsating headache in forehead and temples, alternate congestion to heart and head; severe stitches from heart extending to back, between shoulders.

Nux Vomica – hypertrophy of the heart from portal obstruction; palpitation in frequent short paroxysms, with pulsating throbs in the direction of the heart, especially from mental emotions, protracted study, after eating highly seasoned food; dilatation of heart; with nervous palpitation.

Spigelia – rheumatic Pericarditis; sharp pain shooting through heart back or radiating from the heart down the arm or over the chest and down spine; pulsation of carotids with tremulous motion; great dyspnoea at every change of position; audible beating of the heart; tearing constriction in lower part of the chest.