Heart Disease or cardiovascular disease refers to various types of conditions that can affect heart function, for example:
Coronary artery disease (atherosclerosis – ASHD) {affects the arteries to the heart}: The heart is like any other muscle in the body. It needs an adequate blood supply to provide oxygen so that the muscle can contract and pump blood not only to the rest of the body, it also pump blood to itself via the coronary arteries. These arteries originate from the base of the aorta (the major blood vessel that carries oxygenated blood from the heart) and then branch out along the surface of the heart.
When one or more coronary arteries narrow, it may make it difficult for adequate blood to reach the heart; This can cause the heart muscle to ache like any other muscle in the body and provoke symptoms.
The classic symptoms of chest pain or pressure and shortness of breath often spreads to the shoulders, arms, neck throat etc. This situation is called Angina Pectoris. When the coronary artery becomes completely blocked (due to a plaque that ruptures and causes a blood clot) blood supply to that part of the heart may be stopped as the resulting piece of heart muscle starts to die. All this situation is called “Heart attack” or “Myocardial infarction”.
Valvular heart disease (affects valve functioning to regulate blood flow in and out of the heart).
Cardiomyopathy affects the heart muscles (squeezing).
Heart rhythm disturbances (arrhythmia) affect electrical conduction.
Heart infections where the heart has structural problems that develop before birth.
Classic signs and symptoms of cardiovascular disease
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- Shortness of breath.
- Chest pain (angina) – This pain may radiate or move to the arm, neck, abdomen, neck, jaw, throat, back and even sometimes to testicles.
- Sweating.
- Nausea.
- Irregular heartbeat (arrhythmia).
- Chest tightness squeezing burning sense of discomfort.
- Pain may be accompanied by nausea or indigestion sweating lightheadedness fatigue.
- Sometimes it is hard to determine for the patient, where the pain is exactly coming from.
Diagnosis
Coronary heart disease or cardiovascular disease is initially diagnosed by patient history, physical examination, EKG/ECG, blood tests, Ultrasound, MRI, CT-scan and X-ray to image the arteries and heart muscle to confirm the diagnosis.
Palpate. (feel) for the pulses in the wrists and feet to see if they are present and if they are normal in their amplitude and force. Lack of pulses may signal a narrowed or blocked artery in the arm or leg. If one artery is narrowed, perhaps others, like the coronary arteries in the heart, also may be narrowed.
Auscultating or listening to the neck, abdomen and groin for bruits. A bruit is a sound produced within a narrowed artery due to turbulence caused when decreased blood flow occurs across the narrowed area. Bruits can be heard easily with a stethoscope in the carotid artery in the neck, the abdominal aorta, and the femoral artery. Check sensation in the feet for numbness, decreased sensation, and peripheral neuropathy.
Risk factors:
Atherosclerosis is the term that describes this condition. Cardiovascular disease, peripheral artery disease, and stroke share the same risk factors, a patient who is diagnosed with one of the three has an increased risk of having or developing the others.
Factors that put cardiovascular disease patients at increased risk are:
- Smoking
- High blood pressure (hypertension).
- High cholesterol
- Diabetes
- Family history of heart problems, especially heart attacks and strokes
- Obesity
Causes of Heart Disease or cardiovascular disease (CVD):
Smoking, along with poorly controlled hypertension (high blood pressure), and diabetes, causes inflammation and irritation of the inner lining of the coronary arteries. Over time, cholesterol in the bloodstream collects in the inflamed areas and begin the formation of plaque. With time, this plaque grows, and it does the diameter of the artery narrows. When the artery narrows by 40% to 50%, blood flow is decreased enough to potentially cause the symptoms of Angina Pectoris or cardiovascular disease.
In some circumstances, the plaque can rupture or break open, leading to the formation of a blood clot in the coronary artery. This clot can completely occlude or block the artery. This prevents oxygen-rich blood from being delivered to the heart muscle beyond that blockage and that part of the heart muscle begins to die. This is a myocardial infarction or heart attack.
If the situation is not recognized and treated in time, the affected part of the muscle cannot be revived. It dies and is replaced by scar tissue. After some times this scar tissue decreases the heart’s ability to pump effectively and efficiently and lead to Ischemic cardiomyopathy.
Heart muscle that lacks adequate blood supply also becomes irritable and may not conduct electrical impulses normally. This can lead to abnormal electrical heart rhythms (Arrhythmia) including ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation. These are the heart arrhythmias associated with sudden cardiac death.
Allopathic treatment for cardiovascular disease 
Treatment for coronary heart disease depends upon its severity. Many times, lifestyle changes such as eating a heart-healthy diet, exercising regularly, stopping smoking, and treating high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and diabetes may limit artery narrowing.
For almost all cardiovascular disease types, there is no treatment in allopathy but changing lifestyle along with medication for lifetime, surgery or other procedures might be needed.
Allopathic treatment includes
- Aspirin may be used for its antiplatelet activity. The decision to use aspirin routinely depends upon whether other risk factors for heart disease are present.
- Medications may be prescribed in patients with heart disease to maximize blood flow to the heart and increase the efficiency of the pumping function of the heart for example Corlanor.
- Beta-blocker medications help block the action of adrenaline on the heart, slowing the heart rate. These medications also help the heartbeat more efficiently and decrease the oxygen requirements of the heart muscle during work.
- Calcium channel blockers, help the heart muscle contract and pump more efficiently.
- Nitrates help dilate arteries and increase blood flow to the heart muscle. They are short-acting to treat acute angina symptoms and are long-acting preparations that may be prescribed for prevention.
- Sometimes for stenosis/narrowing of the coronary arteries, angioplasty and/or stenting may be considered to open the blocked areas. These procedures are performed in conjunction with cardiac catheterization. Depending upon the patient’s anatomy and the extent of the blockage present, coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG).
- If a stent is placed, other antiplatelet medications like clopidogrel will be prescribed for the rest of life.
Homeopathic treatment for Cardiovascular Disease
In Homeopathy Angina is classified into three main types:
- Stable angina.
- Unstable angina.
- Prinzmetal’s angina.
Stable angina
When there is no change in frequency, duration and precipitating factors, mostly symptoms occur during exertion and last for less than five minutes and are relieved by rest.
Unstable angina
In unstable angina symptoms are more severe, angina of effort with increasing frequency and duration, provoked by less than usual stimuli and occurs at rest.
Prinzmetal’s angina
Prinzmetal’s angina almost always occurs when a person is at rest, usually between midnight and early morning. These attacks can be very painful. Prinzmetal’s angina is rare, representing about two per cent of cases of angina.
Here are some medicines for cardiovascular diseases:
Aconite
A sudden attack of angina with acute pain in the region side of the chest, arm and shoulder, pulse full, hard, and bounding, a great palpitation, much restlessness with obstructed feeling in the chest. Cough may also be associated with angina.
Aconite is especially useful during an attack of Vaso-motor angina from exposure to cold, with intense anxiety. Coldness pain radiating from the head in all directions, with numbness, tingling, paresthesia.
Aloe Socotrina
There is no medicine like aloe Socotrina, richer in symptoms of portal congestion and none that has given better clinical results, both for the primary pathological condition and secondary phenomena. Bad effects from sedentary life or habits.
Allium Sativam
Allim sativam suited to patients who are disposed to excesses at table – over eating persons, obese, have strong constitutions. Anxiety and impatience. Fears he won’t recover; that he won’t be able to bear any medicine; fear of being poisoned. Leaping beats of the heart.
Lycopodium Clavatum 
Aneurism (Baryta carb). Aortic disease. Palpitation at night. Cannot lie on left side. Poor blood circulation – numbness, also drawing and tearing in limbs, especially while at rest or at night, heaviness of arms, tearing in shoulder and elbow joints. Shakes head without apparent cause. Twists face and mouth. Pressing headache on vertex. Lacks vital heat; has poor circulation, cold extremities.
Kalium Bicarbonicum
The special affinities of this drug are the mucous membrane of stomach, bowels, and air-passages, bones and fibrous tissues. Kidneys, heart and liver. Cardiomegaly, especially from coexisting kidney lesion. Cold feeling around heart. Chest pain extending to back ang left hand,
Bryonia Alba
Pains are stitching and tearing in the region of the heart, aggravated by motion, better by rest and lying on painful side. Exceedingly irritable; everything puts him out of humor. Delirium; talks of business. Vertigo, nausea, faintness on rising, confusion.
Digitalis Purpura
Sensation as if heart would stop working, condition worse by motion. The pulse is slow. Digitalis purpura comes into play in all diseases where the heart is primarily involved, where the pulse is weak, irregular, intermittent, abnormally slow, and dropsy of external and internal parts. Weakness and dilatation of the myocardium. Its greatest indication is in failure of compensation and especially when auricular fibrillation has set in. Slow pulse in recumbent posture, but irregular and dicrotic on sitting up. The least movement causes violent palpitation.
Irregular heart especially of mitral disease. Very slow pulse. Intermits; weak. Cyanosis. Inequality of pulse; it varies. Sudden sensation as if heart stood still. Pulse weak, and quickened by least movement. Pericarditis, copious serous exudation. Dilated heart, tired, irregular, with slow and feeble pulse. Hypertrophy with dilatation. Cardiac failure following fevers. Cardiac dropsy.
Swelling of the feet. Fingers go to sleep easily. Coldness of hands and feet. Rheumatic pain in joints. Shining, white swelling of joints. Muscular debility. Nocturnal swelling of fingers. Sensation in legs as if a red-hot wire suddenly darted through them.
Auricular flutter and fibrillation especially when subsequent to rheumatic fever. Heart block, very slow pulse. Other symptoms of organic heart disease, such as great weakness and sinking of strength, faintness, coldness of skin, and irregular respiration; cardiac irritability and ocular troubles after tobacco; jaundice from induration and hypertrophy of the liver, frequently call for Digitalis. Jaundice with heart disease. Faint, as if dying. Bluish appearance of face. Cardiac muscular failure when asystole is present. Stimulates the heart’s muscles, increases force of systole, increases length. Prostration from slight exertion. Collapse.
Lachesis
Shooting thread type of pain in the heart, left side of chest and left arm. Pain in neck, worse cervical region. Palpitation, with fainting spells. Constricted feeling causing palpitation, with anxiety. Cyanosis. Irregular beats.
Crataegus Oxyacantha 
Pain in the region of the heart, and under the left clavicle. Pulse, feeble, accelerated and irregular, Cyanosis of fingers and toes. Acts on muscle of heart and is a heart tonic. No influence on the endocardium. Myocarditis. Failing compensation. Irregularity of heart. Insomnia of aortic sufferers; anemia; oedema; cutaneous chilliness. High arterial tension. Is a sedative in cross, irritable patients with cardiac symptoms.
Chronic heart disease, with extreme weakness. Very feeble and irregular heart action. General anasarca. Very nervous, with pain in back of head and neck. Collapse of typhoid. Cold extremities, pallor; irregular pulse and breathing. Painful sensation of pressure in left side of chest below the clavicle. Dyspepsia and nervous prostration, with heart failure. In the beginning of heart mischief after rheumatism. Arteriosclerosis. Have a solvent power upon crustaceous and calcareous deposits in arteries. Cardiac dropsy. Fatty degeneration. Aortic disease. Extreme dyspnea on least exertion, without much increase of pulse. Pain in region of heart and under left clavicle. Heart muscles seem flabby, worn out. Heart dilated; first sound weak. Pulse accelerated, irregular, feeble, intermittent. Valvular murmurs, angina pectoris. Cutaneous chilliness, blueness of fingers and toes; all aggravated by exertion or excitement. Sustains heart in infectious diseases.
Head – apprehensive, despondent. Very nervous and irritable, with pain in back of head and neck. Mental dullness conjunctival irritation nasal discharges.
Glonoinum
German provings of Glonoine confirm the American provings and clinical indications and bring out very marked nerve disturbances. Great lassitude, no inclination to work; extreme irritability, easily excited by the slightest opposition, ending in congestive head symptoms. The sixth potency alone produced itching all over body with later acne and furuncle formation, also bulimia.
Great medicine for congestive headaches, hyperemia of the brain from excess of heat or cold. Surging of blood to head and heart. Tendency to sudden and violent irregularities of the circulation. Violent convulsions, associated with cerebral congestion. Sensation of pulsation throughout body. Pulsating pains. Cannot recognize localities.
Cardiovascular disease. Violent heartbeat as if it would burst, pain radiates in all directions, throbbing all over the body. Gluonium’s grand characteristic is throbbing all over the body in every vessel, feeling of fullness in the region of heart, sharp pains radiating in all directions from heart, labored breathing, and fluttering of the heart, the heart feels contracted. Heart laborious action, fluttering, palpitation with dyspnea. Cannot go uphill. Any exertion brings on rush of blood to heart and fainting spells. Throbbing in the whole body to fingertips.
Amylenum Nitrosum
Tachycardia, feeling of a band around the head; oppressed breathing with constricted feeling about the heart, face flushed with anxiety and apprehension. Cardiovascular disease.
dilated arterioles and capillaries, flushing of face, heat, and throbbing in the head – Superficial arterial hyperemia. Palpitation of the heart and similar conditions.
Anxiety, as if something might happen; must have fresh air. Surging of blood to head and face; sensation as if blood would start through skin, with heat and redness. Flushing, followed by sweat at climacteric. Ears hyperemic. Throbbing.
Naja 
Severe pain in the heart region – extending to the nape of the neck, pulse slow and irregular with fluttering and palpitation. Slow respiration. Valvular troubles. Cardiovascular disease. Arteriosclerosis. Marked surging of blood upwards, marked dyspnea, inability to lie on left side. Hypertrophy, and valvular lesions. Organs seem to be drawn together. Very susceptible to cold. With heart symptoms, pain in forehead and temples. Diseases, primarily depending upon degeneration of motor cells. Control of sphincters lost.
Suicidal insanity. Depressed. Aversion to talking. Blurred speech. Melancholy. Dreads to be left alone. Fear of rain. Pain in left temple and in left orbital region, extending to occiput, with nausea and vomiting. Suffocative spells after sleeping. Dragging and anxiety in precordia. Feeling of weight on heart. Angina pains extending to nape of neck, left shoulder and arm with anxiety and fear of death. With the heart symptoms pain in forehead and temples. Pulse irregular in force. Threatened paralysis of heart, body cold, pulse slow, weak, irregular, tremulous. Acute and chronic endocarditis. Palpitation. Stitching pain in region of heart. Damaged heart after infectious diseases. Marked symptoms of low tension.
Secale Cornutum
Cardiovascular disease. Angina pectoris results due to spasms or constrictions of the coronary artery. contraction of the unstriped muscular fibers. Hemorrhages; continued oozing; thin, fetid, watery black blood. Debility, anxiety, emaciation, though appetite and thirst may be excessive. Facial and abdominal muscles twitch. Secale decreases the flow of pancreatic juice by raising the blood pressure. Passive, congestive pain (rises from back of head), with pale face. Head drawn back. Angina pectoris. Dyspnea and oppression, with cramp in diaphragm. Boring pain in chest. Precordial tenderness. Palpitation, with contracted and intermittent pulse.
Spigelia Anthelmia
Spigelia is an important medicine in pericarditis and other diseases of the heart, the proving was conducted with the greatest regard for objective symptoms and the subjective symptoms are by innumerable confirmations proved to be correct.
Shooting, stabbing pain with pressure and oppression in a chest down the left arm. Acts well in smokers and drunkards. Substernal pain which radiates to the neck and arms, irregular pulse, the tendency to syncope, palpitation and sharp stitches in the heart, pulse weak and irregular, or full and bounding with aggravation from the least motion. Arteriosclerosis.
Violent palpitation. Precordial pain and great aggravation from movement. Frequent attacks of palpitation, especially with foul odor from mouth. Pulse weak and irregular. Pericarditis, with sticking pains, palpitation, dyspnea. Neuralgia extending to arm or both arms. Angina pectoris. Hot water gives relieve. Rheumatic carditis, trembling pulse; whole left side sore. Dyspnea; must lie on right side with head high.
Arsenic album
Remarkable remedy for angina pectoris, violent throbbing in the heart when lying on back, aggravation after midnight. Great anguish and restlessness. Changes place continually. Fears, of death, of being left alone. Unable to lie down; fears suffocation. Air-passages constricted. Cardiac asthma. Burning in chest. Palpitation, pain, dyspnea, faintness. Irritable heart in smokers and tobacco-chewers. Pulse more rapid in morning. Dilatation. Cyanosis. Fatty degeneration. Angina pectoris, with pain in neck and occiput. Edema lower extremities.
Cimicifuga Racemosa 
Heart action suddenly ceases with severe pain in the heart region, pulse weak. Pains radiate all over the chest and a sensation as if the left arm were bound to the side. Heart’s action suddenly ceases, sense of impending suffocation, pulse – feeble. Dry, short cough. Irregular, slow, trembling pulse. Tremulous action. Angina pectoris. Numbness of left arm; feels as if bound to side. Left-sided infra-mammary pain.
Cactus Grandiflorus
Acts on circular muscular tissue, hence constrictions. It is the heart and arteries especially that at once respond to the influence of Cactus, producing very characteristic constrictions as of an iron band. This sensation is found in various places, esophagus, bladder, etc.
The mental symptoms: heart affections, sadness, and melancholy. Hemorrhage, constrictions, periodicity, and spasmodic pains. Whole body feels as if caged, each wire being twisted tighter. Atheromatous arteries and weak heart. Congestions; irregular distribution of blood. Favors formation of clots speedily. Great periodicity. Toxic goiter with cardiac symptoms. Cactus is pulseless, panting and prostrated.
Cardiovascular disease: oppressed breathing. Constriction in chest, hindering respiration. Inflammation of diaphragm. Heart-constriction. Angina pectoris. Palpitation; pain shooting down left arm. Hemoptysis, with convulsive, spasmodic cough. Diaphragmatic, with great difficulty of breathing. Endocarditis with mitral insufficiency together with violent and rapid action. Endocardial murmurs, excessive impulse, increased precordial dullness, enlarged ventricle. Low blood pressure. Acts best in the incipiency of cardiac incompetence. Heart weakness of arterio-sclerosis. Tobacco heart. Violent palpitation; worse lying on left side, at approach of menses. Angina pectoris with suffocation, cold sweat, and ever-present iron band feeling. Pain in apex, shooting down left arm. Palpitation, with vertigo; dyspnea, flatulence. Constriction; very acute pains and stitches in heart; pulse feeble, irregular, quick, without strength.
Veratrum album
Poor heart action in tobacco chewers, much palpitation, anxiety and rapid respiration. Collapse, with extreme coldness, blueness, and weakness, is offered by this drug. Post-operative shock with cold sweat on forehead, pale face, rapid, feeble pulse. Excessive dryness of all mucous surfaces. “Coprophagia” violent mania alternates with silence and refusal to talk. Cardiovascular disease.
Melancholy, with stupor and mania. Sits in a stupid manner; notices nothing; Sullen indifference. Frenzy of excitement; shrieks, curses. Aimless wandering from home. Delusions of impending misfortunes. Puerperal mania. Mania, with desire to cut and tear things. Attacks of pain, with delirium driving to madness. Cursing, howling all night. Palpitation with anxiety and rapid audible respiration. Pulse irregular, feeble. Tobacco heart (sniffing, smoking, chewing). Intermittent action of heart in feeble persons with some hepatic obstruction. One of the best heart stimulants in Homeopathy.
Lilium Tigrinum 
Angina pectoris with pain in the right arm, pulsation all over the body, the patient feels suffocated. Sensation as if heart were grasped in a vise. Feels full to bursting. Pulsations over whole body. Arrhythmia – palpitation; irregular pulse; very rapid. Pain in cardiac region, with feeling of a load on chest. Cold feeling about heart. Suffocating feeling in a crowded and warm room.
Ammonium Carbonicum
Audible palpitation with fear, cold sweat, lachrymation, inability to speak, loud breathing and trembling hands. Heart weak, wakes with difficult breathing and palpitation. Hands cold and blue; distended veins. Fingers swell when arm is hanging down. Panaritium, deep-seated periosteal pain.
Strophanthus
Strophanthus increases the contractile power of all striped muscles. Acts on the heart; increasing the systole and diminishes the rapidity. Cardiovascular disease. Angina pectoris due to heart weakness. Dropsical accumulations. In small doses for weak heart. cardiomegaly. Mitral regurgitation with oedema and dropsy.
Strophanthus is a good diuretic, and is safer for the aged, as it does not affect the Vaso-motors.
Cardiac diseases after the long use of allopathic stimulants; irritable heart of tobacco-smokers and chewers. Arterio-sclerosis; rigid arteries of aged. Restores tone to a brittle tissue, especially of the heart muscle and valves. Especially useful in failing compensation dependent upon fatty heart. Hives. Anemia with palpitation and breathlessness. Exophthalmic goiter. Corpulent persons.
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