Aditi Homoeopathy

26/04/2017

Homeopathy is about change

15/02/2017

A short video answering the question "Is homeopathic medicine safe?"

17/01/2017

Are you left feeling sick and lethargic and having your symptoms return?
And yet, despite your best intentions, you’re still plagued with no long-term results and drowsy all the time?
You need to consider Homeopathic Treatments right away.
So here now are the 3 best kept secrets about homeopathy that most beginners DO NOT know about homeopathic treatments
Homeopathy Secret #1 – Anyone Can Use Homeopathic Treatments
This makes it safe enough to use on infants, pregnant women, breastfeeding women, and the elderly. You can even use homeopathic treatments safely on your pets.
Homeopathy Secret #2 – Homeopathic Treatments Are Not Addictive
Unlike conventional medications, homeopathic medicine are also non-drowsy and don’t have any side effects.
Currently, it is actually the leading alternative medicine around the world.
Homeopathy Secret #3 – Your Body is the Only Thing That Can Heal Itself
All homeopathic remedies help your body find what it needs to heal. If you have teary eyes, your medicine will help your body fight what it is making them tear up.
Essentially, the medicine helps your body awaken the power within so that it can heal itself.

27/12/2016

25/12/2016

What happens when you visit a homeopath? This animation helps to explain what happens when you visit a homeopath and receive individualised treatment. This is what to expect when you consult with a professional, registered homeopath.

24/12/2016

Why try homeopathy? This animation explains some of the reasons that millions of people around the world choose homeopathy as a healthcare treatment, and why you too might find it helpful.

Meet the Snooks and enjoy this series of short animations about homeopathy The Snooks will take you on a journey to discover the benefits of homeopathy and what to expect as a patient when seeking professional, individualised homeopathic

22/12/2016

Spondylosis is a broad term meaning degeneration of the spinal column from any cause. In the more narrow sense it refers to spinal osteoarthritis, the age-related wear and tear of the spinal column, which is the most common cause of spondylosis. The degenerative process in osteoarthritis chiefly affects the vertebral bodies, the neural foramina and the facet joints (facet syndrome). If severe, it may cause pressure on nerve roots with subsequent sensory or motor disturbances, such as pain, paresthesia, and muscle weakness in the limbs.
When the space between two adjacent vertebrae narrows, compression of a nerve root emerging from the spinal cord may result in radiculopathy (sensory and motor disturbances, such as severe pain in the neck, shoulder, arm, back, or leg, accompanied by muscle weakness). Less commonly, direct pressure on the spinal cord (typically in the cervical spine) may result in myelopathy, characterized by global weakness, gait dysfunction, loss of balance, and loss of bowel or bladder control. The patient may experience shocks (paresthesia) in hands and legs because of nerve compression and lack of blood flow. If vertebrae of the neck are involved it is labelled cervical spondylosis. Lower back spondylosis is labeled lumbar spondylosis.

Spondylosis is caused from years of constant abnormal pressure, from joint subluxation, sports, or poor posture, being placed on the vertebrae, and the discs between them. The abnormal stress causes the body to form new bone in order to compensate for the new weight distribution. This abnormal weight bearing from bone displacement will cause spondylosis to occur. Poor postures and loss of the normal spinal curves can lead to spondylosis as well. Spondylosis can affect a person at any age; however, older people are more susceptible.

21/12/2016

20/12/2016

INTERVERTEBRAL DISC PROLAPSE

A pr*****ed (herniated) disc occurs when the outer fibres of the intervertebral disc are injured, and the soft material known as the nucleus pulposus, ruptures out of its enclosed space.The pr*****ed or ruptured disc material can enter the spinal canal, squashing the spinal cord, but more frequently the spinal nerves.Herniated discs rarely occur in children, and are most common in young and middle-aged adults. A herniation may develop suddenly, or gradually over weeks or months.

CAUSES

Intervertebral discs can prolapse suddenly because of excessive pressure. Examples include:
1.Falling from a significant height and landing on your buttocks. This can transmit significant force across the spine. If the force is strong enough, either a vertebra (bone) can fracture, or an intervertebral disc can rupture.
2.Bending forwards places substantial stress on the intervertebral discs. If you bend and attempt to lift an object which is too heavy, this force may cause a disc to rupture.
Intervertebral discs can also rupture as a result of weakening outer fibres of the disc. This is usually due to repetitive minor injuries which build up over time. This damage may occur with aging, hereditary factors, work- or recreation-related activities. Often there is no obvious reason why such a process should have occurred. Then at some point you may lift something, twist or bend in a manner which puts enough pressure on the disc to cause it to rupture through its weakened outer fibres.
Intervertebral disc prolapses most commonly occur in the lumbar spine (lower back) and cervical spine (neck). Less commonly, they occur in the thoracic spine (mid-back region).

A pr*****ed disc can cause problems in two ways:

1.Direct pressure. The disc material that has ruptured into the spinal canal or intervertebral foramen can put pressure on the nerves (or spinal cord).
2.Chemical irritation. Once ruptured, the core material of the disc can cause a chemical irritation of the nerve roots and result in inflammation of the nerves.
Both the pressure on the nerve root and the chemical irritation can lead to problems with how the nerve root works.

SYMPTOMS

The symptoms of a herniated or pr*****ed disc may not include back or neck pain in some individuals, although such pain is common. The main symptoms of a pr*****ed disc include:
•In severe cases, loss of control of bladder and/or bowels, numbness in the ge***al area, and impotence (in men)
•Numbness, pins and needles, or tingling in one or both arms or legs
•Pain behind the shoulder blade(s) or in the buttock(s)
•Pain running down one or both arms or legs
•The location of these symptoms depends upon which nerve(s) has been affected. In other words, the precise location of the symptoms helps determine your diagnosis.
•Weakness involving one or both arms or legs

04/10/2016

RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disease in which the body’s immune system – which normally protects its health by attacking foreign substances like bacteria and viruses – mistakenly attacks the joints. This creates inflammation that causes the tissue that lines the inside of joints (the synovium) to thicken, resulting in swelling and pain in and around the joints. The synovium makes a fluid that lubricates joints and helps them move smoothly.
If inflammation goes unchecked, it can damage cartilage, the elastic tissue that covers the ends of bones in a joint, as well as the bones themselves. Over time, there is loss of cartilage, and the joint spacing between bones can become smaller. Joints can become loose, unstable, painful and lose their mobility. Joint deformity also can occur. Joint damage cannot be reversed, and because it can occur early, doctors recommend early diagnosis and aggressive treatment to control RA.
Rheumatoid arthritis most commonly affects the joints of the hands, feet, wrists, elbows, knees and ankles. The joint effect is usually symmetrical. That means if one knee or hand if affected, usually the other one is, too. Because RA also can affect body systems, such as the cardiovascular or respiratory systems, it is called a systemic disease. Systemic means “entire body.”

SYMPTOMS
In the early stages, people with RA may not initially see redness or swelling in the joints, but they may experience tenderness and pain.
These following joint symptoms are clues to RA:
•Joint pain, tenderness, swelling or stiffness for six weeks or longer
•Morning stiffness for 30 minutes or longer
•More than one joint is affected
•Small joints (wrists, certain joints of the hands and feet) are affected
•The same joints on both sides of the body are affected

Along with pain, many people experience fatigue, loss of appetite and a low-grade fever.

The symptoms and effects of RA may come and go. A period of high disease activity (increases in inflammation and other symptoms) is called a flare. A flare can last for days or months.

Ongoing high levels of inflammation can cause problems throughout the body. Here of some ways RA can affect organs and body systems:

•Eyes. Dryness, pain, redness, sensitivity to light and impaired vision
•Mouth. Dryness and gum irritation or infection
•Skin. Rheumatoid nodules – small lumps under the skin over bony areas
•Lungs. Inflammation and scarring that can lead to shortness of breath
•Blood Vessels. Inflammation of blood vessels that can lead to damage in the nerves, skin and other organs
•Blood. Anemia, a lower than normal number of red blood cells

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17/06/2016

Osteoarthritis

Osteoarthritis (OA) is caused by aging joints, injury, and obesity. OA symptoms include joint pain and stiffness. Treatment depends on the affected joint, including the hand, wrist, neck, back, knee, and hip, and involves medication and exercise. If you are overweight, weight loss may improve OA symptoms.

Osteoarthritis is a disease of the joints. Unlike many other forms of arthritis, such as rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus,osteoarthritis does not affect other organs of the body.

The most common symptom of osteoarthritis is pain in the affected joints after repetitive use. Joint pain is usually worse later in the day. There can be swelling, warmth, and creaking of the affected joints. Pain and stiffness of the joints can also occur after long periods of inactivity, for example, sitting in a theater. In severe osteoarthritis, complete loss of cartilage causes friction between bones, causing pain at rest or pain with limited motion.
Symptoms of osteoarthritis vary greatly from patient to patient. Some patients can be debilitated by their symptoms. On the other hand, others may have remarkably few symptoms in spite of dramatic degeneration of the joints seen on X-rays. Symptoms also can be intermittent. It is not unusual for patients with osteoarthritis of the hands and knees to have years of pain-free intervals between symptoms.

Osteoarthritis of the knees is often associated with obesity or a history of repeated injury and/or joint surgery. Progressive cartilage degeneration of the knee joints can lead to deformity and outward curvature of the knees referred to as "bow legged." Patients with osteoarthritis of the weight bearing joints (like the knees) can develop a limp. The limping can worsen as more cartilage degenerates.

Osteoarthritis of the spine causes pain in the neck or low back. Bony spurs that form along the arthritic spine can irritate spinal nerves, causing severe pain, numbness, and tingling of the affected parts of the body.

Osteoarthritis causes the formation of hard bony enlargements of the small joints of the fingers. Classic bony enlargement of the small joint at the end of the fingers is called a Heberden's node, named after a British doctor. The bony deformity is a result of the bone spurs from the osteoarthritis in that joint. Another common bony k**b (node) occurs at the middle joint of the fingers in many patients with osteoarthritis and is called a Bouchard's node, named after a French doctor who studied arthritis patients in the late 1800s.

The Heberden's and Bouchard's nodes may not be painful, but they are often associated with limitation of motion of the joint. The characteristic appearances of these finger nodes can be helpful in diagnosing osteoarthritis. Osteoarthritis of the joint at the base of the big toes leads to the formation of a bunion. Osteoarthritis of the fingers and the toes may have a genetic basis, and can be found in many female members of some families.

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11/06/2016

CHOLESTEROL

Cholesterol is a fatty substance known as a lipid and is vital for the normal functioning of the body. It's mainly made by the liver, but can also be found in some foods.
Having an excessively high level of lipids in your blood (hyperlipidemia) can have an effect on your health.
High cholesterol itself doesn't usually cause any symptoms, but it increases your risk of serious health conditions.

Cholesterol is carried in your blood by proteins. When the two combine, they're called lipoproteins.

The two main types of lipoprotein are:

•high-density lipoprotein (HDL) – carries cholesterol away from the cells and back to the liver, where it's either broken down or passed out of the body as a waste product; for this reason, HDL is referred to as "good cholesterol", and higher levels are better

•low-density lipoprotein (LDL) – carries cholesterol to the cells that need it, but if there's too much cholesterol for the cells to use, it can build up in the artery walls, leading to disease of the arteries; for this reason, LDL is known as "bad cholesterol"

The amount of cholesterol in the blood – both HDL and LDL – can be measured with a blood test.

The recommended cholesterol levels in the blood vary between those with a higher or lower risk of developing arterial disease.

Evidence strongly indicates that high cholesterol can increase the risk of:

•narrowing of the arteries (atherosclerosis)
•heart attack
•stroke
•transient ischaemic attack (TIA) – often known as a "mini stroke"
•peripheral arterial disease (PAD)

This is because cholesterol can build up in the artery wall, restricting the blood flow to your heart, brain and the rest of your body. It also increases the risk of a blood clot developing somewhere in your body.

Your risk of developing coronary heart disease also rises as your blood's cholesterol level increases. This can cause pain in your chest or arm during stress or physical activity (angina).

Many factors can increase your chances of having heart problems or a stroke if you have high cholesterol.

These include:

•an unhealthy diet – in particular, eating high levels of saturated fat
•smoking – a chemical found in ci******es called acrolein stops HDL transporting cholesterol from fatty deposits to the liver, leading to narrowing of the arteries (atherosclerosis)
•having diabetes or high blood pressure (hypertension)
•having a family history of stroke or heart disease

There's also an inherited condition called familial hypercholesterolaemia, which can
cause high cholesterol even in someone who eats healthily.

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