Ayurvedic treatment?

Hi Nautanki,

I went to an Ayurvedic doctor for a series of 5 treatments, but I did not do Piccha Basti. Actually, I was hoping to do a complete Pancha Karma treatment (purification process for your cells to remove toxins and excess dosha by using the Basti treatments), but she strongly recommended that I should wait until my flare was under control before doing those.

My A. doctor explained to me that Ulcerative Colitis is actually a Vata (air) imbalance which blows and inflames the Pita (fire) in the colon. I had assumed it was a Pita Imbalance (I am Pita Dosha), but she said the first thing to bring into balance is Vata, which is the first to go out of balance for almost everyone. So we did a series of Abhyanga treatments (fantastic massages with oils specially designed with herbs for your imbalances and steam baths infused with other herbs) followed by Shirodhara (warm oil gently streamed onto your forehead.)

When you have a Vata (air) imbalance it means you are not grounded. Like a chicken running around, stressing out, trying to do everything. These wonderful treatments definitely helped ground me and calm me down. I loved them and would recommend them to anyone.

What didn't work for me was the suggested diet. Dal (lentils) made me gassy and seemed to aggravate my UC. The ingested herbs were too complex when I was trying to figure out what helped and hurt. Finally, buying Asacol and Rowasa costs me @ $600/month, so I had to give up Ayurveda. I wish I could say if it worked for sure.

Please keep us posted with your wife's progress.

Now, my wife's bleeding has increased a bit since last 2 days.
I am totally confused what to do next.
We live in Mumbai, I am even thinking of giving up my job and also take kid off the school (thinking of homeschooling and/unschooling) and move to Kerala and spend atleast 1 year there and admit her to a good ayurvedic hospital.

If that works out, great. If not, we are thinking of going for either jpouch or permanent ileostomy bag.

We have to wait until exams are over, which would be April first week, until then the same current ayur + allopathy treatment will have to continue.

Nautanki---

I'm sorry for your wife's condition. I have tried ayurveda, spent 1 week at Dr. Lad's Clinic last December for panchakarma following a nasty flare all of October and November. I am currently in remission since November of 09.

My advice to you is not to give up on ayurveda. However, your wife's condition may be so that she is so far off balance that she needs western medicine methods to get her out of her acute stage of flare. This, unfortunately, may require the use of steroids and other pharmaceutical drugs to stop the bleeding and get the inflammation down. Its important for her to get out of the red zone so that ayurvedic treatments can be more effective. IT IS IMPORTANT to seek a good gastroenterologist for acute conditions and get her on a good drug therapy although finding one in Mumbai could be tough.

I'm surprised they've given her those basti enemas. That was contraindicated to me while bleeding.

My faith with ayurveda stems as far as a good accompaniment to my western therapy. There will be a time when I will be off the drugs and fully taking care of myself with ayurveda and chinese medicine alone but I have had many experiences relying solely on alternative medicine to help pull me out of a flare and have failed nearly every time. I follow a lot of ayurvedic treatments still today and have done a lot of research regarding the matter but when time is a factor, best not to mess around with it.

Admitting her to ayurvedic hospital in Kerala may be a good way to go, too. Those people deal with a lot of gastro disorders and may have a much more thorough approach to treating her the ayurvedic way. I'm just relaying to you what I have learned myself. good luck...

I know I am resurrecting a thread, but I have been on the compounds by dr. verma for about a month an a half... I've kinda lost track... I am still on colazal but I am almost in complete remission. I had a sig on last friday and was all clear except for right before my rectum. It was agitated I think because of the lame enemas I had to use. Anyway, if anyone has any questions please send me a pm. I want to be a reference for anyone who has questions since I took the leap and tried them. I am on the Ulcerin 1 and 2 compounds 1pill 3 times a day and colazal 4 pills 2x's a day. His site is ulcerativecolitiscure.com
-Chad

search my username and you'll see a post by me detailing my colitis journey....

Post Edited (chadster) : 3/16/2011 2:46:00 PM (GMT-6)

Stanleyz, Do you Mind to share the Info of the Ayurvedic place that you are going to?
Thanks!

IMO, Ayurvedic medicine, if used to the full extent and properly, is certainly more effective than western medicine. Certain doctors have skewed the meaning of Ayurveda for their own agenda, as seen with the exclusion of meat. We now know that this exclusion causes b12 deficiency in folks and compounds the problems created with IBD.

Post Edited (Guardian7) : 5/18/2014 8:09:06 AM (GMT-6)

Dear Friend, please understand that there r no vitamins and vitamin deficiencies in ayurveda.(Western medicine is still on its way researching many kinds of new bacteria in the gut as well as vitamins).So there is no point looking at ayurveda with a western set of mind. Moreover...whats the point if one cannot absorb vitamins properly? Meat can be taken but only after one reaches that levels of digestion.I wanted to put on weight but my doc said 5 months back - milk if poured in to a dirty vessel is of no use.Same way no use taking meat or other heavy food. I am without any probiotics or western medicines for past 8 months.Talking about meat, I am finding it difficult to digest fish...lol . Doctor said - take very little amounts of fish at first and you can take more later. I also talked about this to my cousin who is a senior ayurvedic Govt Doctor - In her words, its not ayurveda which says dont take meat...but ur disease and meat don't go well.She asked- y do u wanna try fish now? Wait for some time......I can see y many people r losing remission sooner or later due to imbalances caused by heavy/incomaptible foods introduced too early.EVEN MY WESTERN DOCTOR HAD ASKED ME TO STEER CLEAR OF DIARY AND NON-VEG. In Ayurvedic treatment that I have undergone, I was asked to stick to very basic food at first, later on allowed to introduce foods one by one. I am still in the process of introducing foods. Like Hippocrates Said - If someone wishes for good health, one must ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness.Only then its possible to help him.

Post Edited (Stanleyz) : 5/18/2014 9:28:14 AM (GMT-6)

What country are you in? Unfortunately, every case is different.

Ulcerative collitis is a nightmare for a person, who is actually suffering from this.Unfortunately this disease brings lot of side diseases like Piles,Fissures & Fistula also.
If there is a question of actual working of Ayurvedic medicine..Yes they work..provided you use them properly with proper guidance & diet restrictions.Very good example is of (product and url removed) which gives excellent results in ulcerative colitis induced anorectal problems like Piles , Fissures & fistula.This treatment gives immediate improvement in gas, indigestion,stomach pain & burning , improper motions etc.

(Please no selling products on this website, it's against forum rules)

Post Edited By Moderator (iPoop) : 4/14/2017 5:19:09 AM (GMT-6)