Endometriosis and Homeopathy

As we mentioned in previous articles, endometriosis growing somewhere else other than the endometrium also reacts to hormonal signals of the monthly menstrual cycle by building up tissue, breaking it, and eliminating it through the menstrual period. As we know, homeopathy plays a very important role in treating all kinds of diseases. In this article, we will discuss how homeopathy helps to treat endometriosis.

I. Definition
Homeopathy is one form of alternative medicine first discovered by Samuel Hahnemann in 1976. In his theory, Homeopathy is defined as a treatment that can be used on the ill person by using a substance produced by a healthy person. In other words, it helps to stimulate the body’s own defenses to correct illness and allow the body to heal itself.

II. How it works
Homeopathic remedies are generally considered safe, it can be used for short term illnesses and chronic illnesses. It is widely used as non-conventional medicine in the world, along with traditional Chinese and herbal medicine. Since endometriosis is a chronic illness with conditions and symptoms that come and go according to the menstrual cycle, it may require more than one type of treatment.
The first session with your homeopath is always the longest meeting because your homeopath may want to know more about your family history of disease, your life style, your eating habits, or some unrelated questions. The more information which you provide to your homeopath, the more he or she knows about your disease such as what you like and dislike, or what makes you better or worse. All these questions help to determine the final diagnosis and develop a remedy or treatment plan strictly for him or her only.
Here are some ways homeopathy is used in treating endometriosis:
1. Lachesis
Lachesis is one type of homeopathy theory used to stop pain in the left ovary or reduce lower abdominal pain in premenstrual syndrome.

2. Calcarea Carbonica
Calcarea Carbonica is considered safe. Besides treating obsessive behavior, anxiety, fear of failure, and sleep disorders, it also helps to reduce pain on the left side of the uterus during menstruation.

3. Lilium tigrum
Lilium tigrum is one form of homeopathy that helps to stop anxiousness, weepiness, and pain in your ovaries that spreads down to your thighs.

4. Sepia
It is used to release pain of premenstrual syndrome and painful sexual intercourse.

5. Belladonna
It helps to release hot, restlessness and anxiousness, and sudden pain during menstruation.