Heamophilia is an inherited disorder which causes a dysfunction of the blood clotting system, leading to severe and prolonged bleeding, which may be life-threatening. Heamophilia A is caused by a lack of clotting factor viii; heamophilia B is caused by a lack of clotting factor ix; and heamophilia C is caused by lack of clotting factor xi. Most people affected with severe heamophilia usually require periodical infusion of whole blood or clotting factors.
Ayurvedic herbal treatment for heamophilia is aimed at improving the clotting system of the body so that the risks of severe and life-threatening bleeding can be reduced or prevented altogether. Complications like bleeding in joints and internal bleeding can also be prevented with the appropriate Ayurvedic herbal treatment. Ayurvedic herbal medicines are given which bring about a natural clotting of the blood even in patients affected with heamophilia. In addition, Ayurvedic herbal medicines are given which act on the blood tissue, the liver and spleen and on the bone marrow. The overall effect of these medicines is to stimulate the bone marrow as well as the liver and spleen to produce sufficient amount of clotting factors required to prevent abnormal bleeding in affected individuals.
If individuals affected with heamophilia do not respond to these simple Ayurvedic herbal medicines, additional herbo-mineral medicines are used which act on defective DNA and genes so as to restore the dysfunctional blood clotting system of the affected individual. Treatment is usually required for about four to six months, in which subcutaneous bleeding spots disappear completely, the bleeding from joints resolves gradually, and affected individuals report the spontaneous healing of cuts and wounds. Even individuals with severe hemophilia, who previously required periodical transfusion, report that after taking Ayurvedic herbal treatment, they do not require any further transfusions.
Ayurvedic herbal treatment can thus be judiciously utilised in the successful management and treatment of heamophilia.
The writer, Dr. A. A. Mundewadi, is available as an online Ayurvedic Consultant at www.ayurvedaphysician.com
