Management of Cancer in Ayurveda, Siddha &amp; Herbology

Debasish Kundu

doi:10.11648/j.ijhnm.20190501.15

Abstract

In 21 century our Health is in Danger. From every corner of the world people are having some health problems due to environmental pollution incl. electromagnetic radiation, which leads to oxidative stress, double strand breaks in cellular DNA, breakdown of the blood-brain barrier, Loss of melatonin and Cancer. Urban lifestyle is also the greatest cause of oxidative stress. Oxidative stress in body increases like anything and we start cellular aging, got some morbid diseases as a gift and finally death. Insecticides and agrochemicals are the cause of acute and persistent injury to the nervous system, lung damage, injury to the reproductive organs, dysfunction of the immune and endocrine systems, birth defects, may affect the human endocrine and immune systems and may promote the development of cancer. Health effects of pesticides range from mild allergies, rashes, breathing difficulties, neurotoxicity and reproductive abnormalities to deadly chronic diseases like cancer. In this article author traces the linkages of environmental pollution, lifestyles, oxidative stress and related factors to the development of cancer, and the role Ayurveda and Siddha can play in management.

Highlights

According to WHO, Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing and not merely absence of disease or infirmity.In 21 century our Health is in Danger
Kapha is the element of earth and water and any aggravation of kapha is responsible for contamination of the vital body fluids and cells and tissues, thereby development of cancer
The main purpose of Ayurvedic and Siddha medication is to weaken the kapha by nature generating heat and restore balance

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According to WHO, Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing and not merely absence of disease or infirmity.In 21 century our Health is in Danger. Insufficient intake of a specific trace element becomes obvious only when the body is stressed in some way that enhances the need for that element; an increasing number of studies have been performed that have examined the importance of trace element nutritive in various forms of nutritional, metabolic, hormonal, or physiologic stress in animals and humans. These studies indicate that situations will be found in which a trace element is of nutritional significance. It is likely that some of the trace elements are more important in human nutrition than is generally acknowledged.[2]

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