Volume 6 Issue 4 (Oct. - Dec.) 2023
Review Articles
ROLE OF HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICINES IN THE MANAGEMENT OF HAEMORRHOIDS – AS A SAFEST HARMLESS HOMOEPATHIC APPROACH
Shilpee, Meenakshi, Rahul Verma
HAEMORRHOIDS COMMONLY known as ‘ PILES ’ .
The first use of the word ‘haemorrhoid’ in English occur in 1398, derived from the old French ‘emorroides, from Latin haemorrhoida in turn from Greekαἱμορροΐς (haimorrhois), “liable to discharge blood”, from αἷμα (haima), “blood” and ῥόος (rhoos), “stream, flow, current”, itself from ῥέω (rheo), “to flow, to stream. The root cause of haemorrhoids is constipation, straining, high internal sphincter tone which may occur due to distended veins in the lining of the anus. This condition is commom and is often attributed to a low fibrous diet and in a inadequate intake of fluid ,which may leads to slowness of colon to expel-out the collected waste material in the form hard faeces which results in Constipation and there is Straining during bowel movement to pass small, hard stool at each attempt and increases the pressure in the lower abdomen, which slows the flow of blood in the veins around the anus. Repeated Straining during a bowel movement or by conditions such as pregnancy or obesity, which place undue pressure on the lower abdomen , the veins in the around the anus can begin to stretch and swell abnormally produces the distended veins known as ‘PILES’.
