Goodpasture syndrome is a medical condition with combined features of acute glomerulonephritis and bleeding in the pulmonary alveoli, and is hence also known as pulmonary renal syndrome. The features of Goodpasture Syndrome include cough, blood in the sputum and urine, breathlessness, weakness, fever, high blood pressure, and body edema. This medical condition is an auto immune disorder usually caused by environmental insults like smoking and air pollution, viral infections, and a genetic predisposition to auto antibodies.
The Ayurvedic herbal treatment for Goodpasture syndrome is aimed at giving symptomatic treatment for the symptoms of this condition as well as giving medicines to reverse the pathology of this condition. Herbal medicines are given to control cough, breathlessness, and fever. In addition, herbal medicines are also given to reduce the inflammation and damage to the capillary vessels of arteries and veins both in the lungs as well as in the kidneys, which give rise to hemorrhage. This treatment itself prevents or minimizes the toxic reaction in the body which gives rise to high blood pressure and body edema.
Ayurvedic immunomodulatory herbal medicines are used in high doses in order to counteract the auto antibodies present in the blood and which act on the lungs and kidneys to produce the damage known to occur in this medical condition. Long-term use of these medicines gradually treats Goodpasture syndrome as well as prevents a recurrence of the condition. A correction of the immunity also minimizes susceptibility to infections and damage due to environmental pollution. Medicines are also given to flush the toxins and antibodies from the vital organs as well as the circulation out of the body through the gastrointestinal tract as well as the kidneys.
Ayurvedic herbal treatment can thus be used in the management and treatment of Goodpasture syndrome.
The writer, Dr. A. A. Mundewadi, is available as an online Ayurvedic Consultant at www.ayurvedaphysician.com
