LIVER CIRRHOSIS

What is liver cirrhosis?

Cirrhosis is a late-stage liver disease in which healthy liver tissue is replaced with scar tissue and the liver is permanently damaged. 

Scar tissue keeps your liver from working properly.  As cirrhosis gets worse, your liver begins to fail. 

Each time your liver gets hurt, it repairs itself and forms tough scar tissue. When too much scar tissue builds up, the organ can't work properly. 

This scarring is permanent and is most often caused by long-term exposure to toxins such as alcohol or viral infections. 

Causes

• Alcohol 

• Hepatitis (hepatitis B, C and D)

• Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis 

• Cystic fibrosis

• Poorly formed bile ducts (biliary atresia)

• Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency

• Inherited disorders of sugar metabolism (galactosemia or glycogen storage disease)

• Genetic digestive disorder (Alagille syndrome)

• Destruction of the bile ducts (primary biliary cirrhosis)

• Hardening and scarring of the bile ducts (primary sclerosing cholangitis

• Infection, such as syphilis or brucellosis

• Other causes

Other causes of cirrhosis include:

1.  Hepatitis D. 

2. Autoimmune hepatitis.

3. Damage to the bile ducts.

4. Disorders that affect the body’s ability to handle iron and copper. Two examples are hemochromatosis and Wilson’s disease.

5. Medication.

Risk Factors

• Abuse alcohol for many years.

• Have viral hepatitis.

• Have diabetes.

• Obesity

• Inject drugs using shared needles.

• Have a history of liver disease.

• Have unprotected sex.

Symptoms

• Fatigue

• Easily bleeding or bruising

• Loss of appetite

• Nausea

• Swelling in your legs, feet or ankles (edema)

• Weight loss

• Itchy skin

• Yellow discoloration in the skin and eyes (jaundice)

• Fluid accumulation in your abdomen (ascites)

• Spiderlike blood vessels on your skin

• Redness in the palms of the hands

• For women, absent or loss of periods not related to menopause

• For men, loss of sex drive, breast enlargement (gynecomastia) or testicular atrophy

• Confusion, drowsiness and slurred speech (hepatic encephalopathy)

Homoeopathic treatment for liver cirrhosis

Homoeopathy treats the person as a whole. It means that homoeopathic medicine for liver cirrhosis focuses on the patient as a person, as well as his pathological condition.

Brahma Madhurya Homoeopathy offers full individualizing examination and case-analysis, which includes the medical history of the patient, physical and mental constitution etc.

Homoeopathy treats the underlying cause of Cirrhosis of Liver, such as viral infection, genetic tendency, bad effects of alcohol, metabolic changes, etc. and thus help to treat effects of Cirrhosis of Liver.

At an early stage of cirrhosis, homoeopathic medicines can very effectively reduce the viral count (in Hepatitis caused by HBV and HCV) as well as give symptomatic relief without side effects.

Though, Homoeopathy can be started at any stage of the cirrhosis early or late, depending upon when one has chosen to opt for Homoeopathy or depending upon till what stage disease has progressed. It can differentially give an individual a better quality of life by reducing his sufferings.

Homoeopathy has very effective medicines for liver problems such as liver cirrhosis. Medicines like:

• Marianus, 

• Phosphorus, 

• Picricum Acidum, 

• Lachesis, 

• Chionanthus, 

• Crotalus Horridus, 

• Chelidonium, 

• Carduus Marianus 

• Natrum Sulphuricum, 

• Berberis Vulgaris, 

• Mercurius, 

• podophyllum, 

• Myrica cerifera, 

• Lycopodium, 

• Nux vom, 

• Bryonia, 

• Digitalis, 

• Plumbum met, 

• Pulsatilla, 

• Iodum, 

• Kali bichromicum, 

• Taraxacum, 

• Muriaticum acidum, 

• Colchicum autumnale

• China officinalis

• Thuja occidentalis etc., 

None of these medicines should be taken without professional advice.

For individualized remedy selection and treatment, contact BRAHMA MADHURYA HOMOEOPATHY CLINIC - +91-7057579595 or www.brahmamadhurya.com