Dr Zainul Abid, BHMS,PGDGC Al Lulu Medical Center, Sharjah -06-5646252
In the last few decades, there is a tremendous rise in lifestyle disorders especially in Gulf countries. Now a days people prefer sedentary lifestyle, consuming junk and processed food containing high calories, with unhealthy habits like smoking and alcohol consumption etc.. give rise to several lifestyle diseases. Ignoring physical activities, becoming glued to the gadgets, poor sleeping patterns, high stress in job and family adds the fuel to it. A clear cut lack of awareness makes the situation even worse. Nowadays almost every adult individual suffer from some kind of lifestyle disorders.
Obesity and Diabetes (Type II) run throughout all most all family. Previously Type II diabetes starts at 45+ ages, but the scenario now commence even from 30+ ages. Al most all are affected by anxiety or depression in a way or other. Other lifestyle disorders commonly seen are Hypertension, Hypothyroidism Stroke, Cardiac problems, Renal failure, Arteriosclerosis, Alzheimer’s disease, Cancer (mostly skin and lung) and Chronic Liver problems.
The only way to get rid of these diseases is to modify our lifestyle. Even Children are happy being with their favorite gadgets than indulging in more physical activities and outdoor games. The change should start from schools and colleges itself. Healthy and nutritious foods are replaced by fast foods. Digging the root cause is an important factor for an effective treatment. But none are bothered about finding out the root cause and changing the lifestyle but prefer lifelong medication. This scenario is really alarming. Many who try changing the lifestyle can’t stick on it for a long course.
Homoeopathy treats patients by a holistic approach and gives important to individualistic characteristics of the person along with the disease symptoms. Homeopathy does not treat a disease or an ailment superficially. It believes in curing the patient in a disease rather than a disease in the patient. It focuses to the hereditary or acquired tendency of individual while dealing with a particular symptom. Homoeopathic medicines are prepared mainly from plants, animal tissue, minerals and other natural substances, by a standard method called dynamisation or potentisation, which comprises of successive dilutions and succussion to enhance the inherent curative power of the drugs to maximum. This minimizes the toxic and harmful effects of the crude drug thereby increasing the curative effectiveness of the medicines. Thus the homeopathic medicines have negligible or no side effects.
In homeopathy the medicines also improve and enhance the patient’s overall immune system thus keeping a lot of diseases away. Diseases like diabetes, hyperlipidemia, hypertension, hypothyroidism, depression etc.. can be successfully treated and cured with homeopathy. Homeopathy also gives good positive results when administered as an adjunct to conventional medicine or any other line of therapy in complicated or late stages of these diseases where conventional medicine doesn’t have the complete key to manage. People who choose for homeopathic treatment for a chromic ailment fall less ill often and over a period of time also become less prone to stress and feel healthier overall. If along with homeopathy, people make minor alterations to their lifestyle one can get rid of any lifestyle diseases and improve his quality of life.
