Homeopathy Health Care

Anemia is also known as anæmia/anaemia is defined as a qualitative deficiency of hemoglobin or quantitative deficiency of hemoglobin, a protein found inside red blood cells (RBCs). Since hemoglobin normally carries oxygen from the lungs to the tissues, anemia leads to hypoxia (lack of oxygen) in organs. Since all human cells depend on oxygen for survival, varying degrees of anemia can have a wide range of clinical consequences. Anemia is also caused by a lack of iron in the body.



The three main classes of anemia include excessive blood loss, acutely such as a hemorrhage or chronically through low-volume loss, excessive blood cell destruction Hemolysis or deficient red blood cell production (ineffective hematopoiesis ).
Anemia is the most common disorder of the blood. There are several kinds of anemia, produced by a variety of underlying causes. Anemia can be classified in a variety of ways, based on the morphology of RBCs, underlying etiologic mechanisms, and discernible clinical spectra.

There are two major approaches: The "kinetic" approach which involves evaluating production, destruction and loss, and the "morphologic" approach which groups anemia by red blood cell size. The morphologic approach uses a quickly available and cheap lab test as its starting point (the MCV ).

Signs of Anemia

Anemia goes undetected in many people, and symptoms can be small and vague. Most commonly, people with anemia report a feeling of weakness or fatigue in general or during exercise, general malaise and sometimes poor concentration. People with more severe anemia often report dyspnea which means shortness of breath, on exertion. Very severe anemia prompts the body to compensate by increasing cardiac output, leading to palpitations and sweatiness, and to heart failure.

Pallor (pale skin, mucosal linings and nail beds) is often a useful diagnostic sign in moderate or severe anemia, but it is not always apparent. Other useful signs are cheilosis and koilinychia .

Pica, means the consumption of non-food based items such as dirt, paper, wax, grass, ice, and hair, may be a symptom of iron deficiency, although it occurs often in those who have normal levels of hemoglobin.
Chronic anemia may result in behavioral disturbances in children as a direct result of impaired neurological development in infants, and reduced scholastic performance in children of school age.


Remedies & Symptoms

ALUMINA

• Anaeima and chlorosis in young girls at puberty.
• After menses, exhausted physically and mentally, scarcely able to speak .
• Abnormal carving for indigestible things.
• Profuse albuminous leucorrhoea.

• Anaemia due to disintegration of the blood-corpuscles.
• Rapid excessive prostration, with sinking of the vital forces; oedema.
• Emaciation, wants to be a warm room.
• Debility from overtaxing muscular tissue by prolonged exertion.
• Extreme restlessness and fear of death (pernicious anaemia).

• Anemia and atony from prolonged haemorrhage, esp. from uterine atony.
• Debility and languor from affection of the genitor-urinary.
• Atony of all the organs from indolence and luxury.

• Anaemia from loss of fluid, malarious cashexia blood impoverished.
• Skin harsh, dry yellow.
• Great exhaustion from any little exertion of mind or body.
• Palpitation, with sensation as if a bird’s wing were fluttering in left chest.
• Great emaciation, losing flesh while living well.

• This remedy act by supplying new blood cells.
• Pains and cramps dependent on anaemic condition, waxy appearance of skin, chlorosis, headache and ringing in ears.
• Also useful in pernicious anaemic.

• Anaemia in infants, when improperly nourished, thin, delicate and puny, inter- currently with other remedies indicated.