Ventricular tachycardia is a medical condition in which the heart rate per minute is more than hundred beats and can result in symptoms like giddiness, palpitation, and breathlessness, and may be associated with a risk of sudden death. The prognosis is more serious when ventricular tachycardia is associated with heart disease. The modern management of this condition includes treatment with drugs, implantable heart devices or endocardial catheter ablation therapy.
Ventricular tachycardia is a serious medical situation and therefore requires treatment in a hospital with intensive care facilities. Ayurvedic herbal treatment can be given as additional and supportive therapy in order to bring about long-term improvement and cure of the condition so as to prevent or reduce the need for long-term drugs, mechanical devices or ablation therapy. Ayurvedic herbal medicines which have a specific action on the heart muscles and the conduction of impulses in the heart are used in high doses for several months together. These medicines strengthen the heart as well as regulate the nerve impulses so as to bring about a normal transmission of impulses in the entire heart. This gradually prevents abnormal beating of the heart, especially of the ventricles.
Once an improvement is observed in the affected individual with appropriate use of Ayurvedic herbal medicines, further medicines are given to strengthen the heart, regulate the nerve impulses, and prevent a relapse of the condition. Overall, individuals affected with ventricular tachycardia need regular Ayurvedic herbal treatment for about three to six months in order to bring about a significant improvement in the ventricular tachycardia. However, because of the risk of sudden death, all such individuals need to remain under the regular supervision and medical care of a Cardiologist. Modern medicines can be continued along with the use of Ayurvedic herbal medicines so as to give maximum benefit to the affected individual.
Ayurvedic herbal treatment can thus be judiciously utilised in the management and treatment of ventricular tachycardia.
The writer, Dr. A. A. Mundewadi, is available as an online Ayurvedic Consultant at www.ayurvedaphysician.com
