Cholesterol is a chemical compound that the body requires as a building block for cell membranes and for hormones like estrogen and testosterone.

The liver produces about 80% of the body’s cholesterol and the rest comes from dietary sources like meat, poultry, eggs, fish, and dairy products. Foods derived from plants contain no cholesterol.

Diet and genetics both play a factor in a person’s cholesterol levels. There may be a genetic predisposition for familial hypercholesterolemia where the number of liver receptor cells is low, and cholesterol levels rise, in the presence of atherosclerosis – atherosclerotic heart disease at any age is confirmed.

Cholesterol content in the bloodstream is regulated by the liver. After a meal, cholesterol in the diet is absorbed from the small intestine and metabolized and stored in the liver. As the body requires cholesterol, it may be secreted by the liver.

It’s wrong that too much cholesterol in the body can build up in deposits called plaque along the inside walls of arteries; it’s the inflammation in arteries that causing them to narrow (known as atherosclerosis). In inflamed arteries, plaque sticks to the walls of arteries and could lead to coronary artery disease (atherosclerosis – coronary arteries become narrow or even blocked), said Dr. Qaisar Ahmed.

Note: Our body needs too much cholesterol to make hormones, vitamin D, for good immune system, keep brain healthy and working normal etc and substances that helps us digest foods. The brain contains the highest level of cholesterol in the body and abnormal cholesterol metabolism links to many neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease (HD), skin cancer, bones and joints diseases (RA, OA, OP etc.), dementia, delirium, low memory, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) etc.

What is HDL, LDL, and VLDL?

Cholesterol does not travel freely through the bloodstream. Instead, it is attached or carried by lipoproteins (lipo = fat) in the blood. There are three types of lipoproteins that are categorized based on how much protein there is in relation to the amount of cholesterol. HDL, LDL, and VLDL are lipoproteins.

Different types of lipoproteins have different purposes:

• Low-density lipoproteins (LDL) contain a higher ratio of cholesterol to protein and are thought of as the “bad” cholesterol. In presence of arterial inflammation and/or hardening (aneurysm), elevated levels of LDL lipoprotein increase the risk of heart disease, stroke, and peripheral artery disease, by helping form cholesterol plaque along the inside of narrow artery walls.

Remember that cholesterol itself is not the cause of blockage but inflammation and/or arthrosclerosis (hardening) of arteries. Over time, as plaque buildup (cholesterol deposits in narrow and or in hard {aneurysms} and inflamed arteries) increases, the artery further narrows, and blood flow decreases. If the artery ruptures, it can cause a blood clot to form that prevents any blood flow. This aneurism is the cause of a heart attack or myocardial infarction not cholesterol itself.

• High-density lipoproteins (HDL) are made up of a higher level of protein and a lower level of cholesterol. These tend to be thought of as “good” cholesterol. The higher the HDL to LDL ratio, the better it is for the individual because such ratios can potentially be protective against heart disease, stroke, and peripheral artery disease.
• Very low-density lipoproteins (VLDL) contain even less protein than LDL. VLDL like LDL has been associated with plaque deposits in narrow or inflamed arteries.
• Triglycerides (a type of fat) may increase cholesterol and in the presence of atherosclerosis or arterial inflammation cardiac and/or strokes are possible.

What causes high density cholesterol?

The most common cause of high-density cholesterol (HDL) is an unhealthy lifestyle…

• Unhealthy eating habits, such as eating lots of artificial fats (Fats, saturated fats, ghee etc are absolutely not bad as they introduced by drug mafia), chocolate, baked goods, and deep-fried and processed foods especially at restaurants. Restaurant foods contain trans-fat, eating these fats can make inflammation in body specially in arteries.
• Lack of physical activity.
• Smoking can cause inflammation and hardening (aneurysm) in arteries.

Other medical conditions and certain allopathic medicines may also cause inflammation and arteriosclerosis (hardening and narrowing arteries).

Diagnosis

There are usually no signs or symptoms that you have high cholesterol.

A blood test “Lipid profile” to measure cholesterol level.

Four types of allopathic drug classes are used to lower cholesterol levels.

• Statins: A variety of statin drugs are on the market including simvastatin, atorvastatin, pravastatin, fluvastatin, lovastatin, and rosuvastatin. These drugs primarily decrease LDL.
• Niacin: Niacin is the prescription form of niacin and decreases LDL and triglycerides as well as increases HDL.
• Bile acid resins: Cholestyramine is a bile acid resin that decreases LDL.
• Fibric acid derivatives: Fibric acid resins lower LDL and include gemfibrozil and fenofibrate.

Statins are the only allopathic class of cholesterol-lowering drugs that have been directly related to reducing the risk of heart attack or stroke.

Alirocumab and evolocumab are two new medications that are antibodies to a protein, PCSK9, a receptor for LDL. These drugs are indicated for treatment in patients who have had a heart attack or stroke or have familial hypercholesterolemia and are taking maximum therapy but continue to have high LDL cholesterol levels in their blood.

The doctor should decide which cholesterol medications are right for the patient based on her/his current and past medical history, patient’s current health, and any other medications patient is taking. These medications often need to be adjusted and monitored for side effects.

While all four medication groups may have a role in controlling cholesterol levels in association with diet, exercise, and smoking cessation, only statins are shown to decrease the risk of a heart attack.

Statin therapy may benefit patients with a history of heart attack, those with elevated blood LDL cholesterol levels or type two diabetes, and those with a 10-year risk of heart disease greater than 7.5%.

Homeopathic treatment for Cholesterol

Unhealthy lifestyle weakens liver; unhealthy liver cannot maintain its normal function to control cholesterol, infections (immune system), inflammations (minerals deficiency) etc. in our body. That’s why I (Dr. Qaisar Ahmed) recommend start cholesterol treatment – vascular diseases treatment if take a nail in, from liver, never decrease cholesterol levels of your patients if you want to see them healthy and happy; just treat the inflammation present in their bodies and control/treat their malnutrition (minerals – especially “Magnesium”).

Here are few Homeopathic medicines for almost every type of abnormal cholesterol and for different types if inflammations and aneurism in bodies:

Allium Sativum:

Allium Sativum is the best natural medicine for cholesterol control as this helps in eliminating the excess cholesterol from the body by raising the vitality of the patient.

Allium sativum acts directly on intestinal mucous membrane increasing peristalsis. Colitis, with pathological flora. Has Vaso-dilatory properties (arterial hypertension). Arterial hypotension begins usually in 30 to 45 minutes after twenty to forty drop doses of the tincture or potency.

Adapted to fleshy subjects with dyspepsia and catarrhal affections. High livers. Patients who eat a great deal more, especially meat, than they drink.

The high blood pressure due to cholesterol deposits/clots in inflamed or harden arteries can also be wonderfully dissolved and removed with the help of Allium Sativum.

Calcarea Carbonica:

Its chief action is centered in the vegetative sphere, impaired nutrition being the keynote of its action. Calcarea Carbonica reduces high cholesterol in fate or obese/overweight patients. Excessive sensitive to cold air and continuous perspiration on scalp are symptoms for advising Calcarea Carbonica. Submaxillary glands swollen. Goiter. Inguinal and mesenteric glands swollen and painful. Bleeding of gums. Difficult and delayed dentition.

Complain of tightness or oppression in chest or a feeling of suffocation that is intensified on going upstairs. Excessive palpitations (arrythmia, tachycardia). Arrhythmia – palpitation at night and after eating, with feeling of coldness, with restless oppression of chest; after suppressed eruption. Back pain. Pain between shoulder-blades, impeding breathing. Rheumatism in lumbar region; weakness in small of back. Curvature of dorsal vertebrae. Nape of neck stiff and rigid. Renal colic – rheumatic heart diseases.

Baryta Muriaticum:

Baryta Muriaticum is best for elderly people who suffer from high cholesterol levels. Atherosclerosis. The systolic pressure is always on the higher. Heaviness and vertigo consequent to the reduced blood supply to brain.

Acts on lower alimentary canal, rectum, veins, muscles and joints, giving stiffness and weakness. The white blood corpuscles increased. Hypertension and vascular degeneration. Increased tension of pulse. Arterio-sclerosis where a high systolic pressure with a comparatively low diastolic tension is attended by cerebral and cardiac symptoms.

Indurated and narrowing of the cardiac orifice with pain, immediately after eating, and epigastric tenderness. Aneurism and chronic hypertrophy of the tonsils. Nymphomania and satyriasis. Convulsions. In every form of mania when the sexual desire is increased. Icy coldness of body, with paralysis. Multiple sclerosis of brain and cord. Voluntary muscular power gone but perfectly sensible. General feeling of lassitude in the morning, especially weakness of the legs, with muscular stiffness.

Plumbum metallicum

For those who thinks that cholesterol is the cause of vascular diseases and cardiac arrests – The blood, alimentary and nervous systems are the special seats of action of Plumbum. Hemostasis is interfered with, rapid reduction in number of red corpuscles, hence pallor, icterus, anemia. Constrictive sensation in internal organs.

Delirium, coma and convulsions. Hypertension and arteriosclerosis. Progressive muscular atrophy. Infantile paralysis. Locomotor ataxia. Excessive and rapid emaciation. Bulbar paralysis. Important in peripheral affections. Contractions and boring pain.  Cardiac weakness. Pulse soft and small, dichroitic. Wiry pulse, camp-like constriction of peripheral arteries.

Secale Cornitum

Contraction of the unstriped muscular tissue, anemia, coldness, numbness, petechiae, mortification, gangrene, debility, anxiety, emaciation, though appetite and thirst may be excessive. Facial and abdominal muscles twitch. Falling of hair; dry and gray. Nosebleed, dark, oozing. Livid spots on face. Spasmodic distortion. Tongue swollen, paralyzed. Angina pectoris. Dyspnea and oppression, with cramp in diaphragm. Boring pain in chest. Precordial tenderness. Palpitation, with contracted and intermittent pulse.

Locomotor ataxia. Formication and numbness. Myelitis. Extremities cold, dry hands and feet of excessive smokers with feeling of fuzziness in fingers. Trembling, staggering gait. Formication, pain and spasmodic movements. Numbness. Fingers and feet bluish, shriveled, spread apart or bent backwards, numb. Icy coldness of extremities. Violent pain in fingertips, tingling in toes.

Aurum Metallicum:

Aurum Metallicum is of great help in those cases of high cholesterol where the arteries have become hardened (atherosclerosis) causing cholesterol depositing, and high blood pressure, rapid and irregular pulse with violent palpitations (tachycardia). Ascites often in conjunction with heart affections. Arterio-sclerosis, high blood pressure; nightly paroxysms of pain behind sternum. Cholesterol is heigh due to inflammation in arteries.

Sclerosis of liver, arterial system, brain. Pining boys; low spirited, lifeless, weak memory. Sensation as if the heart stopped beating for a while, immediately followed by a tumultuous rebound, with sinking at the epigastrium. Palpitation. Arrhythmia – pulse rapid, feeble, irregular. Hypertrophy. High Blood Pressure-Valvular lesions of arterio-sclerotic nature.

Garcinia Morella:

Garcinia is an excellent remedy for controlling high cholesterol levels in blood due to arteriosclerosis (anti-inflammatory properties). Burning pain in the liver region. Dysentery, gastritis, etc.

Digitalis Purpura

Comes into play in all diseases where the heart is primarily involved. Pulse weak, irregular, intermittent, abnormally slow, arteriosclerosis, heigh cholesterol (due to narrowing of arteries) and dropsy of external and internal organs. Weakness and dilatation of the myocardium. Failure of compensation and especially when auricular fibrillation. Slow pulse in recumbent posture, but irregular and dicrotic on sitting up. Auricular flutter and fibrillation especially when subsequent to rheumatic fever. Heart block, very slow pulse.

Weakness and sinking of strength, faintness, coldness of skin, and irregular respiration; cardiac irritability and ocular troubles of smokers; jaundice from induration and hypertrophy of the liver, frequently call for Digitalis. Jaundice with heart disease. Faint, as if dying. Cyanotic. Cardiac muscular failure when asystole is present. Collapse.

Digitalis purpura stimulates the heart and arteries muscles, increases force of systole, increases length. Prostration from slight exertion.

Cardus Marianus:

Liver and portal system diseases, soreness, pain, jaundice. Has specific relation to the vascular system. Abuse of alcoholic beverages, especially beer. Arteriosclerosis and cholesterol. Varicose veins and ulcers. Diseases of miners, associated with asthma. Dropsical conditions depending on liver disease, and when due to pelvic congestion and hepatic disease. Disturbed sugar metabolism. Influenza when liver is affected. Debility. Hemorrhages, especially connected with hepatic disease.

Strophanthus Hispidus:

Acts on the heart; increasing the systole and diminishes the rapidity. Could be used with advantage to tone the heart and run off dropsical accumulations. Arteriosclerosis. Cardiomegaly. In mitral regurgitation, where oedema and dropsy have supervened. Strophanthus is a great diuretic, and is safer for the aged, as it does not affect the Vaso-motors.

After the long use of stimulants; irritable heart of tobacco-smokers. Arterio-sclerosis; rigid arteries of aged. Restores tone to a brittle tissue, especially of the heart muscle, arteries and valves. Especially useful in failing compensation dependent upon fatty heart. Hives. Anemia with palpitation and breathlessness. Exophthalmia goiter. Corpulent persons.

Dyspnea, especially on ascending. Lungs congested. Edema of lungs. Bronchial and cardiac asthma. Pulse quickened. Heart’s action weak, rapid irregular, due to muscular debility; and insufficiency. Cardiac pain. Urticaria, especially more chronic forms (spleen and liver?).

Adonis Vernalis:

A heart medicine, after rheumatism or influenza, or after Bright’s disease, where the muscles of the heart are in stage of fatty degeneration, regulating the pulse and increasing the power of contractions of heart, with increased urinary secretions. Most valuable in cardiac dropsy due to the aneurysm and or arteriosclerosis. Low vitality, weak heart and slow, weak pulse. Hydrothorax, ascites. Anasarca. Vertigo on rising, turning head quickly or lying down. Tinnitus. Scalp feels tight. Eyes dilated.

Mitral and aortic regurgitation. Chronic aortitis, Fatty heart pericarditis. Rheumatic Endocarditis. Precordial pain, palpitation, and dyspnea. Marked venous engorgement. Cardiac asthma. Fatty heart. Myocarditis, irregular cardiac action, constriction and vertigo. Pulse rapid, irregular.

Kalmia Latifolia:

Has a prominent action on the heart. In small doses, it accelerates the heart’s action; in larger it moderates it greatly. Weak, slow pulse. Fluttering of heart, with anxiety. Palpitation; worse leaning forward. Gouty and rheumatic metastasis of heart. Tachycardia, with pain. Tobacco heart. Arteriosclerosis. Dyspnea and pressure from epigastrium toward the heart. Sharp pains take away the breath. Shooting through chest above heart into shoulder-blades. Frequent pulse. Heart’s action tumultuous, rapid and visible. Paroxysms of anguish around heart.

Apocynum Cannabinum

Increases secretions of mucous and serous membranes and acts on cellular tissue. Best for oedema and dropsy. A diminished frequency of the pulse is a prime indication. This is one of most efficient medicine, in dropsies, ascites, anasarca and hydrothorax, and urinary troubles, especially suppression and strangury – inflammation of any/all cylindrical shaped organs. Bright’s disease, with the nausea, vomiting, drowsiness, difficult breathing. The dropsy is characterized by great thirst and gastric irritability. Arrhythmia. Mitral and tricuspid regurgitation. Acute alcoholism. Relaxation of sphincters.

Short, dry cough. Respiratory short and unsatisfactory. Sighing. Oppression about epigastrium and chest. Tricuspid regurgitation; rapid and feeble, irregular cardiac action, low arterial tension, pulsating jugulars, general cyanosis and general dropsy.

Quebracho or Aspidosperma:

Respiratory paralysis. Slow heart, and paralysis of extremities, dyspnea in phthisis and pleurisy. Cyanosis. Mitral incompetence and stenosis with severe nocturnal dyspnea due to cholesterol insufficiency in vital organs. Fatty heart. Cardiomegaly, especially of right side, dyspnea and a slight mitral murmur. Emphysema and severe attacks of asthma.

Cretigus Oxydentalis:

Giddiness, low pulse, air hunger and reduced blood-pressure. 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; edema; 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. Hemorrhage from bowels. 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. Said to have a solvent power upon crustaceous and calcareous deposits in arteries thus open arteries for cholesterol movement.

Apprehensive, despondent. Very nervous and irritable, with pain in back of head and neck. Mental dullness conjunctival irritation nasal discharges. 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. Cough. 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.

Curcuma Longa:

Curcuma longa is an excellent remedy for lowering cholesterol levels in blood. Curcumin, also known as turmeric root, an ancient spice in the ginger family, is gaining attention for its positive impact on a number of diseases, including cholesterol reduction. Scientific evidence has been building since the mid-1980s of curcumin’s potential cholesterol-lowering capabilities. 10 drops Q three times daily.

Fel Tauri: 

Traer sluggish liver and eliminates fat, cholesterol. Peevish, irritable mood, Violent headache, abnormal digestion, undigested stool, pasty stool, tightness of breath. Increases the duodenal secretion, emulsifies fats and increases the peristaltic action of the intestines. Liquefies bile and acts as a purgative and cholagogue. Disordered digestion, diarrhea, and pain in nape of neck are among its chief symptoms. Obstruction of ducts, or cylindrical shaped organs.

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 with the 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 and simulation of cholesterol. Favors formation of clots speedily. Great periodicity. Toxic goiter with cardiac symptoms. Cactus is pulseless, panting and prostrated.

Inflamed or calcified arteries, arteriosclerosis blokes and clogged cholesterol in arteries and in result – oppressed breathing, constriction in chest, hindering respiration. Inflammation of diaphragm, heart-constriction, angina pectoris with suffocation, cold sweat, and ever-present iron band feeling. Pain in apex, shooting down left arm. Endocarditis with mitral insufficiency together with violent and rapid action.

Acts best in the incipiency of cardiac incompetence. Heart weakness of arterio-sclerosis. Tobacco/smoker’s heart. Violent palpitation; worse lying on left side, at approach of menses. Palpitation, with vertigo; dyspnea. Constriction; very acute pains and stitches in heart; pulse feeble, irregular, quick, without strength. Endocardial murmurs, excessive impulse, increased precordial dullness, enlarged ventricle. Low blood pressure.

Naja Tripudians

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. Inflammation in arteries caused cholesterol blockage.

Iberis Amara

State of nervous excitement. Has marked action upon the heart. Possesses great efficacy in cardiac diseases. Control vascular excitement in hypertrophy with thickening of the heart’s walls. Cardiac debility after influenza. Liver region full and painful. Cholesterol clots.

Arteriosclerosis and calcification in arteries cause cholesterol blockage and in result – vertigo and pains around heart. Hot, flushed face. Conscious of heart’s action. On turning on left side, stitching pain as of needles through ventricles felt at each systole. Palpitation, with vertigo and choking in throat. Stitching pains in cardiac region. Pulse full, irregular, intermittent. Worse, least motion and in warm room. Sensation of weight and pressure, with occasional sharp, stinging pains. Dropsy, with cardiomegaly. Violent palpitation induced by slightest exertion, or by laughing, or coughing. Darting pains through heart. Cardiac dyspnea. Dilation of heart. Wakes with palpitation at midnight. Numbness and tingling in left hand and arm. Whole body sore, lame and trembling.

Rosmarinus Officinalis:

This homeopathic medicine used when the level of triglycerides is high. it acts as astringent, tonic, carminative, antispasmodic and diaphoretic.

Could be advise for: Vertigo. Headache. Heaviness and dullness of head. Weight and tension round head. Oppression of breathing. Cholesterol, spasms in chest, coldness, chill over whole, legs icy cold, no thirst and no subsequent heat and all these symptoms are due to atherosclerosis. Cholesterol.

Oucus vesiculosus:

Cholesterol, obesity, Intolerable headache; forehead felt as if compressed by an iron ring, act of digestion is no longer accompanied by flashings of the face, fulness, weight in epigastric region and fits of heat towards head, Sense of suffocation.

My (Dr. Qaisar Ahmed) advice is to make combination of above or some of them to maximize benefits and minimize treatment duration.

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