THYROID CARE IN HOMEOPATHY.

The human body is a well oiled mechanism and all the functions are well ordained. There are a group of endocrine glands in the body that produce hormones which help in achieving this objective. The thyroid gland is one which produces two hormones Triiodothyronine or T3 and Thyroxine or T4 which are accelerators of various organs of the body and set the speed at which they run. Whether it is the heartbeat, respiratory rate, the amount of perspiration from the skin cells or the female hormones that need to influence the production of ovum or for that matter consumption of oxygen and production of heat; these hormones directs the organs how fast or how slow they need to function. But under some circumstances this equillibrium goes awry.

Hyperthyroidism is a condition in which the gland is influenced to work more than it should leading to increased production of T3 and T4 and which lead to rapid haertbeat, muscle weakness, trembling hands, irritability, anxiety and gradually loss of weight. Though there is no certain reason why this condition should occur but it can be due to an auto-immune response of the body.

Hypothyroidism is a condition in which there is a slowdown of the production of T3 and T4 which then causes sluggishness, fatigue, irritability, mental depression, menstrual irregularities, constipation, dry skin and hair, etc. The pituitary gland which is the master of the "endocrine orchestra" rises to the occasion and pushes the thyroid gland to produce more by insisting on the Thyroid Stimulating Hormone to do the job.

This condition can also occur due to an auto-immune response or due to decreased activity of the pituitary gland or in conditions like Hashimoto's Thyroiditis wherein the gland is neutralised or there is a leakage of the hormone into the blood circulation or also after delivery. Certain condition when situations like hyperthyroidism are treated can lead to the gland being pushed into reduced activity too. 

The other issue of the thyroid gland can be due to the nodules in the gland. As such they may not visible or palpable and not necessarily deleterious all the time but need to be ruled out as and when they are noticed. A blood test or a scan would be done to rule out any possibility of a condition like cancer. Also like an iodine uptake test wherein the nodules take more of iodine reveals that the nodules are active or on some circumstances there is just a fluid in the areas called as cysts and are drained out.

Homeopathic medicine has remedies for all such occurences. Whether it is the over acting thyroid gland or the remedies like Iodum, Natrum Mur or the slow acting phase of the hypothyroidism when Calca carb and Thyroidin come into play and remedies like Lapis albus, Thuja, Medorrhinum help the cysts away after ascertaining the contents of those

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