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Old 22nd January 2019, 13:21   #331
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Cousin has a uterine fibroid. Her Ayurveda doctor gave her some combination of Kanchanara Guggulu, Shigru Guggulu, and Haridra Khand but the formulation started giving her knee pain. This has happened before also to her with some Ayurvedic medicines. Long back when she was taking some Ayurvedic medicines she started knee pains & this pain goes as soon as she stops the medicine. We think it's because some Ayurvedic formulation have heavy metals. But other Ayurvedic medicines work just fine for her. So the question is where she can get Kanchanara Guggulu, Shigru Guggulu, and Haridra Khand without heavy metals?
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Cousin has a uterine fibroid. Her Ayurveda doctor gave her some combination of Kanchanara Guggulu, Shigru Guggulu, and Haridra Khand but the formulation started giving her knee pain. This has happened before also to her with some Ayurvedic medicines. Long back when she was taking some Ayurvedic medicines she started knee pains & this pain goes as soon as she stops the medicine. We think it's because some Ayurvedic formulation have heavy metals. But other Ayurvedic medicines work just fine for her. So the question is where she can get Kanchanara Guggulu, Shigru Guggulu, and Haridra Khand without heavy metals?
I am not a doctor but i don't think heavy metal ingestion causes knee pain as a symptom.
Has your cousin's primary condition(Fibroid) improved upon taking these medicines ? Did you ask your Ayurvedic doctor about knee pain as a side effect of these medicines?

As per my knowledge medicines like Guggulu are classical ayurvedic formulations, meaning that they can be supplied by multiple pharmacies. Do check with your local Ayurvedic store if they have other brands like Baidyanath/Dabur/Patanjali for these medicines.
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Has your cousin's primary condition(Fibroid) improved upon taking these medicines ? Did you ask your Ayurvedic doctor about knee pain as a side effect of these medicines?
This is not the first time. It's happened many times over the last 15 years. Some Ayurvedic medicines give her knee pain. And she has to stop it immediately. The first time this happened, it was hell because nobody connected it. She even went to an Orthopedician for it. But at around the same time, she stopped the medicine for a few days (Forgot to pack it while going for a week's trip) and the pain stopped. But she still didn't connect it. Then when she came back, she restarted it & the pain started within a week & it stopped within a day of discontinuing it again. Same thing has happened many times. This time again, it started within a week of starting the medicines & stopped within a day of stopping the medication.

And her uterine fibroids was asymptomatic so no way to say if it helped or not. Also one of the known effects of heavy metals is joint pain.
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Poorly formulated ayurvedic medicines especially taken without supervision and with breaks in the course - you can expect side effects.

Fibroids are best treated with surgery. Even Ayurveda had shailya chikitsa aka surgery so it is a viable option even if you asked the old rishis like Charaka. Find a competent gynecological surgeon and proceed on their advice.
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Poorly formulated ayurvedic medicines especially taken without supervision and with breaks in the course - you can expect side effects.
The first ones to cause this 15 years back was from one of the Big Kerala based Ayurveda dispensaries. She has taken many medicines from them over the years but only this one medicine caused the problem. And it was not taken without supervision. And the pain in the knees happened before the break in course. The unintended break in course was made her realize that it was because of the medicine.

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Fibroids are best treated with surgery.
It's asymptomatic. It was discovered during a Ultrasound done to check if she has gallstones. Even her MBBS doctor is not recommending surgery as of now. He just said to wait & watch because she is anyway nearing menopause.
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Hello all, reviving an old thread for a new question. I am seeking ayurvedic treatment for my daughter of 9 years for severe myopia. I have come across Sri Sri Netrajyoti and Sreedharayam. Any one who has used ayurvedic treatment or alternative medicine for reducing myopia?

Any real life experiences wil be greatly helpful.
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Hello all, reviving an old thread for a new question. I am seeking ayurvedic treatment for my daughter of 9 years for severe myopia. I have come across Sri Sri Netrajyoti and Sreedharayam. Any one who has used ayurvedic treatment or alternative medicine for reducing myopia?
None of this is going to help. Proper use of glasses and curbing TV / mobile / video game etc use will help. And the eye exercises a good pediatric eye doctor will prescribe as well.
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Hello all, reviving an old thread for a new question. I am seeking ayurvedic treatment for my daughter of 9 years for severe myopia. I have come across Sri Sri Netrajyoti and Sreedharayam. Any one who has used ayurvedic treatment or alternative medicine for reducing myopia?

Any real life experiences wil be greatly helpful.
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I am not an ophthalmologist but have sufficient knowledge to strongly advice you to seek professional help. None of the alternative medicines will work and treatment for myopia should be started at the earliest to reduce and possibly reverse the impact. Please get in touch with appropriate personnel.
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Hello all, reviving an old thread for a new question. I am seeking ayurvedic treatment for my daughter of 9 years for severe myopia. I have come across Sri Sri Netrajyoti and Sreedharayam. Any one who has used ayurvedic treatment or alternative medicine for reducing myopia?

Any real life experiences wil be greatly helpful.
My cousin had got some eye treatment done in Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry. But, it was more of exercise and yoga and not any medication. I heard it helped to some extent but not enough to get rid of her glasses. This was some 20 years ago.

Like others have suggested, see a good ophthalmologist first. These alternative options can, at best be supplements to proper treatment.
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Thank you for your responses. Have shown the opthalmologist and meeting a pediatric opthalmologist as well to get thorough check up done. A friend's daughter at similar age went to AOL and the number came down by 1D +.

For us the priority is to arrest slide, if possible to reduce. Allopathy doesn't give any solution but put Atropine and wear glasses and pray that further growth spurts or puberty doesn't make it any worse.
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For us the priority is to arrest slide, if possible to reduce. Allopathy doesn't give any solution but put Atropine and wear glasses and pray that further growth spurts or puberty doesn't make it any worse.
Not exactly. And being realistic is far better than giving either allopathic drugs or jadi booti and assuring power will reduce. Yoga of any sort not even aol will definitely help as it reduces stress levels and tones the muscles so the power may reduce as a result. But it isn’t any sort of cure.
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For us the priority is to arrest slide, if possible to reduce. Allopathy doesn't give any solution but put Atropine and wear glasses and pray that further growth spurts or puberty doesn't make it any worse.
My son used to wear glasses since he was 5. And we saw that the myopic power was increasing quite fast every year. A pediatric doctor helped us manage this quite a bit and he is now 14 years and not much difference in power since we started him on medication. The point is, regular visits to the doctor helped us manage this. The thing is, the growth spurts is where the eye ball also grows and chances a much greater for eye defects to grow during the age of 5 to 15. After 15, I think the rate of change will go down.

So, while Ayurveda and other medicines may help, allopathy has more documented evidence and standard operating procedure which has been shared across many many doctors/countries etc. My own experience with my son shows that it helps.

Having said that, if it's not working out then yes, by all means try alternative medicine. But first give allopathy a good chance is what I would say.
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My son used to wear glasses since he was 5. And we saw that the myopic power was increasing quite fast every year. A pediatric doctor helped us manage this quite a bit and he is now 14 years and not much difference in power since we started him on medication. The point is, regular visits to the doctor helped us manage this. The thing is, the growth spurts is where the eye ball also grows and chances a much greater for eye defects to grow during the age of 5 to 15. After 15, I think the rate of change will go down.

So, while Ayurveda and other medicines may help, allopathy has more documented evidence and standard operating procedure which has been shared across many many doctors/countries etc. My own experience with my son shows that it helps.

Having said that, if it's not working out then yes, by all means try alternative medicine. But first give allopathy a good chance is what I would say.

@deep_bang,

Many thanks for sharing your thoughts. Could you please let me know what medication did the doctor use? And who was the doctor and where was he/she based out of?

The reason I ask is as of now two docs that I saw have only suggested Atropine and I havent heard anything else.

Many thanks in advance for your response.

PS: Please DM me if you prefer. I tried DMing you but your mailbox was full.
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Guys, need advice. I had travelled to Manali back in Feb'21 and despite staying in a good hotel (clean and known), I came back with a rash. Showed to skin specialists who diagnosed it as an insect bite (insect not known) but nothing came out in blood tests. They diagnosed it as Papular Urticaria and told me that it will take 8 to 10 months to get fine.

Since then I have been on and off allopathy and with hardly any relief. The rashes still appear on different parts of the body and itch like hell late evenings and nights. Basically allopathy hasn't been able to cure this.

Can anyone recommend anything else please in Ayurveda? I went to a homeopathy doctor who told me that its too slow and only allopathy can cure me.
Any help / advice will be really appreciated.
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