Alternative Therapy For Heart

Operations by pass or balonisasi quite effective for patients with coronary heart disease. Unfortunately, not all patients can live it. Some alternative therapies such as medication, meditation, yoga, and chelation may be a solution.

There are a variety of heart disease, namely heart defect, rheumatic heart valve, heart, high blood pressure, heart cardiomyopathy, and coronary heart disease. Coronary heart disease (CHD) was ranked first.

Among other diseases, CHD is the number one killer for both men and women. According to data from the American Heart Association in 1996, 13.5 million people worldwide suffer from CHD and 1.5 million had a heart attack.

By Dr. Dedi Affandi, Sp.JP (K), FIHA, stressed that until now the most advanced measures to deal with CHD is by pass surgery or stent. "No one else," said the heart specialist from RSCM-FKUI this. In fact, until now there has been no medicine doctor who can remove plaque or atheroma that clog coronary heart disease.
Drugs Most Awful

However, many patients with heart conditions worse still, not surgery. Not a few patients treated Dr. Dedi prefer a therapy with the drug. In fact, this therapy often feels tedious because the drug must be taken regularly every day.

"Actually, this alternative therapy is the most ugly step. However, I take this step because a lot of things into account, particularly in terms of age of the patient, "he said.

Incidentally Dr patient. Dedi mostly aged over 50 years. For them, the possibility of survivors after surgery is comparable with medication therapy. Therefore, according Dr.Dedi, drug therapy is more effective and safer than surgery. Moreover, not all patients have sufficient funds, considering heart surgery is very expensive.

There are at least seven types of drugs available for heart disease, depending on each case. Antiangina drug (nitrates, beta blockers, calcium channel blockers) are useful to reduce the oxygen consumption of heart muscle and increase coronary blood flow by expanding blood vessels.

There are drugs which function as a diuretic, to increase spending on salt and water through urine. Thereby reducing the amount of fluid in the circulation as well as lowering blood pressure.

There is also known as digitalis drugs, namely that serves as an addition to the strength of heart muscle contraction, thus improving the ability of the heart. Although no specific drug which serves to slow heart rhythm (antiarrhythmics), digitalis drugs are often used for this antiarrhythmics.

Furthermore there antihypertensive drugs that works by expanding blood vessels and relaxes smooth muscle or artery. The most popular are antiplatelet drugs that thin the blood to function, for example aspirin. "These drugs alone is sufficient for heart patients to survive," he said.
Mencapit Plaque

Coronary artery blockage, caused by at least three things. First, due to blood sugar is too high as in people with diabetes. Excessive blood sugar causes fat entering the blood stuck and cause blockage in the coronary blood vessels in the brain, heart, and kidney.

Second, due to oxidants or unstable molecules produced by the body or come from outside the body. This causes damage to blood vessels, causing atherosclerosis. Therefore, antioxidants are needed.

"The number of French people less heart disease than Americans, even though their fat intake as much. That's because after eating steak French people drink wine. In French wine flavonoid antioxidants contained high enough, "said Dr. Dedi. Now people use green tea also has antioxidant properties.

Before the use of alternative materials to reduce the risk of CHD, added Dr. Dedi, there are antioxidant substances that function mengkhelasi blockage. Chelation or chelation or chelate comes from the Greek, Chele, which means mencapit, strangle, or crab.

Liquids for chelation of amino acids and called EDTA (Ethylene Diamine Tetracetic Acid). This fluid is inserted into the vein through an IV. Beyond this fluid will mencapit or tie around the vessel wall plaque and merontokkannya slowly. The result is wasted with automatic dried urine via the kidneys.

This method is not popular among doctors in Indonesia, although there are doctors who do it. Although safer and cheaper than surgery, for Dr.Dedi chelation is not too reliable.
Do not Stress

The most important therapy that must be endured heart patients, according to Dr. Dedi, is always trust receiving state. "Do not stress. So I 'it is always joking with the patient, "he said, before the patient who was sitting a row.

Many people are often difficult to be grateful for his life, difficult to accept the circumstances including the pain, although it is due to unforced errors. Comes the stress.

In fact, so the brain receives signals that we are under stress, the command to increase the sympathetic system running. As a result, stress hormones and adrenaline increase. Lever releases sugars and fats in the blood to add fuel, and breathing becomes rapid so that the amount of oxygen increases. By itself the heart work faster. Blood pressure also increased. This condition is dangerous for heart patients.

Stress indeed be one factor in the risk of heart disease. That's why when the stress is well managed will improve the work of the heart. It is a therapy that is simple, but very meaningful to prolong the life expectancy of heart patients.

"Of course, other rules such as set meal, enough activity and rest, avoid high fat food consumption, not smoking, etc. must accompany all these therapies. You have to live disciplined, if not quickly die, "he said.
Blood Pressure Let Down, is to meditate

Dr. Dedi Afandi, Sp.JP (K), FIHA, a heart specialist from RSCM-FKUI, acknowledge that alternative therapies such acupuncture, yoga, herbal ingredients in many cases showed a good effect. "It means people feel refreshed, no shortness of breath or weakness. Acupuncture can strengthen the heart organ, although I do not know how it could take place, "he said.

If patients want to try the therapy, he did not forbid. However, he never included it in the process of therapy and medication treatments are applied. "Therapy warm bath or a sauna, especially when after a sauna flushed the body with cold water, I was not allowed at all. Blood vessels can be narrowed again. Danger! "He said.

One safe therapy that can be undertaken namely meditation. Utilization of meditation to deal with risk factors for coronary heart disease (CHD) has been studied at the initial stage. However, some researchers have documented the effectiveness of meditation on heart problems, especially those associated with hypertension.

Leading researcher Dr. Herbert Benson of Harvard Medical School noted that regular meditation can lower blood pressure significantly in many patients with hypertension. Dr. Benson also found that meditation produces relaxed conditions, circumstances contrary to fight or flight response (the condition when people are experiencing high stress).

Most likely, according to Dr. Benson, this is caused by several factors, including the effect of decreasing sympathetic nervous system activity. Therefore, the physical effects of meditation is to lower your heart rate and needs oxygen to the body.

In those who do meditation, oxygen consumption decreased to 10-20 percent. This decline began in the first 3 minutes of meditation. Interestingly, this decrease is even greater than when we sleep, which only reached about 8 percent and it took 4-5 hours. So, meditation is better than sleep.

What is important, according to Dr. meditation. Benson can reduce the frequency of cardiac arrhythmias. This means that for patients with CHD, meditation is very important to improve the quality of life.