HOMOEOPATHY FOR FIBROCYSTIC BREAST

Disease:

Fibrocystic breast disease characterized by lump feeling and usually discomfort in one or both breasts. This condition is very common and benign. It is the most common cause of lumpy breasts in women and affects more than 60% of women. The condition primarily affects women between the ages of 30 and 50 and the occurrence of this condition decreases after menopause. A benign change in breast tissue and it is not cancer. Other names of this disease are cystic breasts, breast cysts, benign fibrocystic breast disease.

It is often more prominent during ovulation and before the menses. During these times, hormone level changes often cause retention of fluids in the breast cells and developing into nodules or cysts, which feel like a lump when touched. The nodules or cysts can spread throughout the breast, may be located in one general area or simply appear as one or more large cysts. 

FIBROCYSTIC BREAST

Causes:

• Hormonal changes during woman's monthly cycle. The most important of these hormones are estrogen and progesterone.
• Women who are receiving Hormone replacement therapy
• The most significant contributing factor to fibrocystic breast condition is a woman's normal hormonal variation
• Hormonal imbalance of Prolactin, growth factor, insulin, and thyroid hormone are some of the other major hormones.

Risk Factors: 

1. Hereditary issues. 
2. High fat diet 
3. Excessive caffeine intake

Symptoms:

• Irregular lumps or cysts,
• Breast discomfort,
• Sensitive nipples,
• Breast pain
• Tenderness in one or both breasts with pressure or touch
• Formation of persistent cysts or lumps
• Nipple discharge (Green or dark brown non bloody nipple discharge) or inflammation.
• Fluctuating size of breast lumps
• Itching

Above mentioned symptoms may change throughout the monthly cycle and usually stop after menopause, in the latter years, these fluctuations produce dense or fibrotic tissues.  

Homoeopathy Treatment for Fibrocystic Breast:

In contrast homeopathic medications have a wide range of use in treatment and prevention of fibroadenoma breast or fibrocystic disease or fibroadenosis as well as in the promotion of proper lymphatic drainage of breast.

HOMOEO LIFE PLUS

Homeopathic remedies are a safe and extremely effective way of balancing your problems naturally by allowing your system to correct itself with gentle stimulation of your own immune response and hormonal balance. Unlike so many conventional or allopathic medications, homeopathic medicines are never addictive.

Phytolacca Decandra (poke root) – comes to mind as the most prominent glandular remedy and almost always is useful in problems associated with mastitis. Tenderness of the breasts before and after menses. Breast tumors with the enlargement of Axillary glands. When a patient complains about breast pain in the upper outer quadrant radiating into the Axillary regions, I always think of this great medicine.

Conium Maculatum (poison hemlock) – indispensable in conditions that present with very hard nodules, tenderness and swelling around menses. Painful swelling in the Axillary glands with numbness going down the arm.

Silicea Terra (pure flint) – as a consequence of defective nutrition and assimilation, these patients will complain of stitching (splinter like) pains. Unhealthy tendency to suppuration with fistulas and abscess conditions, keloids, painful scars. Soreness of drawn in nipples, sensation of a stone pressing in the breast.

Scrophularia Nodosa (knotted figwort) – useful in dissipation of nodules in the breast. The characteristic symptoms would be pain in all flexor muscles. Incidentally, very useful in Hodgkin's disease.

Lac Caninum (dog's milk) – this patient will present with symptoms of painful swelling in the breasts before menses, worse with jarring motion. This woman will hold both breasts firmly going up or down the stairs. Her nipples may be painful and the pain usually alternates from side to side.

Asterias Rubens (red starfish) – may have symptoms of ulceration in the breast, nodules and indurations with lacerating pains that are worse at night; these pains may extend all the way from Axillary glands through the arm to the end of the little finger. Restlessness of lower extremities at night would very much indicate the use of red starfish.

There are 53 homoeopathy medicines which give great relief in fibroadenoma breast or fibrocystic disease of breast. However, the correct choice and the resulting relief is a matter of experience and right judgment on the part of the homeopathy doctor. The treatment is decided after thorough case taking of the patient. Thus homeopathic remedies of fibroadenoma breast or lumps in breast or fibrocystic disease of breast are designer made unlike allopathy in which all patients receive the same surgery or drugs although trade name may be different.

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HOMOEOPATHY FOR FIBROCYSTIC BREAST

Alternative Medicine:

No specific treatments available for the fibrocystic breast disease, other than those to control   the discomfort.

• Wearing a firm bra that gives very good support also reduces breast pain
• Low heat pads may also help reduce the discomfort. Use heat or ice on the breast.
• Avoiding excessive dietary fat and limit salt intake
• Pain relievers (acetaminophen or ibuprofen) for reducing pain
• Avoid caffeine and chocolates
• Vitamin B6, vitamin E, and evening primrose oil.          

Hormonal therapy with oral contraceptive pills, danazol (danocrine) or bromocriptine which regulate estrogen and progesterone levels. .

SELF BREAST EXAMINATION

Prevention:

Reducing alcohol intake and reducing consumption of meat fishes and regularly eating foods containing flavonoids can help reduce inflammation.

• Perform monthly breast self-exams
• Yearly breast examination by a doctor
• Regular mammograms if recommended by your health care provider
• Reducing the amount of fat and caffeine
• Reducing intake of salt in the diet
• Reducing intake of dietary fats
• Drinking lots of water
• Oral iodine and iodides in the diet
• Preventing or treating iodine deficiency
• Treating thyroid disorders
• Making breast cells less sensitive to the effects of estrogen

Note : 

Homeopathic Treatment requires stringent individualization. Please do not take any medicine without consulting your Homeopathic Physician.