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Ayurveda Treatment for Hypothyroidism

Avinash Purushotham

Hypothyroidism is a important lifestyle disorder the prevalence rate is globally 4.5 and in India is 10.45. Hormonal therapy is the only line of treatment available in Allopathy, but in Ayurveda there are number of drug which normalises the thyroid function and those drugs do not contain any phyto Hormones. It can be considered as tridoshaja vyadhi, among tridosha kapha and vata dosha are in aggravated state and it requires dosha pratyanika chikitsa rather than vyadhi pratyanika chikitsa . Here avaranahara , agnideepaka and aamapachaka line of treatment plays a very major role . Drugs like kanchanara and classical formulations like Kanchnara guggulu which contains Agnideepaka and Aamapachaka are used to treat Hypothyroidism. In most of the cases hypothyroidism can be reversed with the proper usage of these drugs along with Dosha pratyanika chikitsa. Most of the times with modern medicine TSH will be under normal limits but associated symptoms or symptoms of hypothyroidism like myxodema , hairfall,weight gain , constipation ,continues to prevail but with the Ayurveda treatment the first thing we notice is reduction in all symptoms and signs. Gradual reduction of TSH occurs and normal levels of T3 and T4 is maintained and the drugs which are used doesn't contain any synthetic hormone or phyto hormones this very fact suggest that hypothyroidism is a reversible disease with Ayurveda. All the autoimmune Hypothyroidism like hashimoto's thyroiditis also responds to the dosha pratyanika chikitsa of Ayurveda very well. Selected group of Hypothyroidism patients who were aged between 25yrs In the newly diagnosed cases of Hashimoto's thyroiditis ,where the patient can be reversed in short span of time. However chronic Thyroiditis to 60yrs and they were again divided into 4groups where the etiology induced Hypothyroidism and Hashimoto's hypothyroidism is reversed in has not taken any synthetic thyroxin hormones these autoimmune disease varied from idiopathic cause to Hashimoto's thyroiditis. Thyroiditis patient who are on Synthetic thyroxin hormones can be treated and can reverse the disease. Except the benign goitre all the other signs of also the patient's we treated in the Ayurveda medicine. â—†GroupA = Newly diagnosed cases along with subclinical hypothyroidism cases are selected and treated as per Dosha pratyanika chikitsa along with agnideepana and Aama pachana .Results were very promising and the time taken to reverse thee disease was 6-9months â—†Group B=Newly diagnosed hypothyroidism cases who were not on Any synthetic medication but the other co morbidities like hypertension ,DM type 2 and dyslipidemia were taken results here were also good but the duration ranged upto 18-36months â—†Group C= Chronic Hypothyroidism cases who were on synthetic thyroxin hormones with no co morbidities were taken and here started with Ayurveda medicine simultaneously tapering the synthetic Hormones and the duration ranged from 18-24 months â—†GroupD= chronic Hypothyroidism cases who were on Synthetic Thyroid hormones along with co-morbidities like hypertension and DM type2 , here duration was more than 24 months ranging upto 48months and results were satisfactory Keywords: Hassimoto's thyroiditis, Synthetic Thyroxin Hormone , Kanchanara , Kanchanara Guggulu , Dosha pratyanika chikitsa