PILES (HEMORRHOIDS)
Due to change in our life style, bad eating habits in our routine life, so many diseases appear. There is no punctuality in our eating time, sleeping time, working time. Along with it there is lack of physical exercise with mental tensions and the result is many types of abdominal diseases such as Indigestion, Gastric problem, Acidity, Constipation etc. If these troubles go on for a long time, the person may suffer from Hemorrhoids.
WHAT ARE HEMORRHOIDS (PILES) :
Piles or Hemorrhoids is a sort of disease related to anal veins, in which there is varicosity of anal veins and if pressure increases on these anal veins due to any cause (such as constipation), the walls of veins become weakened, which affects the process of dilatation and contraction in the veins and veins remain dilated at last. Blood doesn’t flow further from these dilated veins and remains accumulated, so veins become swelled up. Further it, if walls of veins become much weakened and pressure is more, the veins may rupture and blood oozes out. This whole process is just like the appearance of varicose veins in legs of those persons, who stand for a long time, but in these cases blood doesn’t come out as the veins of legs have more strength. Hemorrhoids word has originated from 2 Greek words Haima = Blood and Rhoos = Flowing and the Piles word is originated from a Latin word Pila = Ball like.
TYPES OF HEMORRHOIDS (PILES):
There are two types of piles mainly(1) External- present at outer side of anus.(2) Internal- present in inner side of anus.Sometimes they are found combined and known as Intero - External Hemorrhoids. Sometimes Piles may be a symptom of a disease such as- anal cancer, during pregnancy, chronic constipation, making great effort for urinating (in case of prostatic hypertrophy and urethral stricture).
CAUSES OF HEMORRHOIDS (PILES):
(1) Hereditary causes.
(2) Morphological causes.
(3) Anatomical causes.
(4) Exciting causes.
SYMPTOMS:
(1) Pain- cutting and pricking pain with burning in anus during and after stool.
(2) Bleeding- bleeding after bursting out of Piles.
(3) Anal prolapsus- when disease becomes very severe.
(4) Secretion- sometimes sticky and bad smelling secretion comes out after prolapsus of Piles.
(5) Anemia- found in rare patients. If bleeding occurs for a long time and is not treated well then patient may become Anemic.
INVESTIGATIONS:
(1) Digital examination.
(2) Proctoscopy.
(3) Sigmoidoscopy.
COMPLICATIONS OF HEMORRHOIDS (PILES): -
(1) Excessive bleeding.
(2) Strangulation.
(3) Thrombosis.
(4) Ulceration.
(5) Gangrene.
(6) Fibrosis.
(7) Sepsis.
(8) Pylephlebitis.
TREATMENT OF HEMORRHOIDS (PILES):
Hemorrhoids or Piles is taken as surgically treated disease in Allopathy or in other words Piles is considered to be treatable only by operation. But Homoeopathy can treat Piles successfully and permanently.Generally it is seen that patient gets nervous when blood comes out from Piles and pain occurs and in nervousness he gets it operated. But the problem appears again after sometime in most of the patients because surgery will not be effective until the cause of Piles persists. So patient must consider it that surgery can’t be the proper treatment for Piles, he will move towards Homoeopathy at last. If blood is coming out and pain is violent, then by taking Homoeopathic medicine bleeding will be stopped in 2-3 days and pain becomes subsided in 5-7 minutes. So this suffering should not bother patient. Consult to a Homoeopathic physician and disease will be cured definitely. Here I want to add one important thing after Homoeopathic treatment, Piles move inside in number of patients, but in some cases Piles remain outside the anus, but in both conditions, the treatment is complete, because, the external Piles also will not create any type of problems after the treatment, this is my personal experience.If after passing of the complaints by taking Homeopathic treatment, Piles persist outside, then this is not the matter to be worried about, as he will not be suffering again in future (If the treatment is taken from a good Homoeopath.).As I believe that treatment is given to whole patient not for the disease in Homoeopathy, so I would like to say, every Homoeopath, that he should consider this peculiarity of Homoeopathy. Medicine should be given to the patient and not for the disease (nor for the Piles), because if we treat the patient according to his nature, the disease will be cured, what ever the disease is. It may be Piles, High Blood-Pressure, Arthritis or any other disease. This is the difference between Homoeopathy and the other systems of the medicines, that where other system of medicines are given for diseases Homoeopathic medicines are given to the patient and only one Homoeopathic medicine will cure the all complaints. That is why the Homoeopathic treatment is permanent. However, the following medicines are prescribed for Piles (Hemorrhoids): - Aesculus. Hipp. ; Agaricus. ; Aloe’s. ; Ars. Alb. ; Carbo. Animalis. ; Carbo. Veg. ; Causticum. ; Collinsonia. ; Graphytes. ; Hamamalis. ; Kali. Ars. ; Kali. Carb. ; Kali. Sulph. ; Lachesis. ; Lycopodium. ; Muriatic. Acid. ; Nitric. Acid. ; Nux. Vom. ; Palonia. ; Phosphorus. ; Pulsatilla. ; Sepia. ; Sulphur. Etc.
NOTES TO BE CONSIDERED
We should consider some important things along with treatment. Those things should be avoided which cause Constipation, Acidity or Diarrhea because Piles (Hemorrhoids) may appear again and condition may be serious. Green vegetables, Fruit’s juices, Roughage, Water should be taken in much quantity; Oil, Ghee, Spicy things should be avoided. Morning walk (with naked feet on grass) is very useful in case of Piles or Hemorrhoids.
