Thyroid problems

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Dear All,

 

In Germany we get numerous Thyroid cases.

I need some advice on Thyroid patients.

Often I prescribe Kanchanara guggul, additionally for Kapha Hypothyroid I may

also give Trikatu an appropriate Dosha pacifying diet.

I just wondered if there are better alternatives than Kanchanara guugul, as in

my experience I find the patient has to take it for at least 6 months before

they see the benefit - especially so in chronic cases.

 

Many thanks

Ray

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ayurveda, RAY NORONHA <raynoronha>

wrote:

> In Germany we get numerous Thyroid cases.

> I need some advice on Thyroid patients.

> Often I prescribe Kanchanara guggul, additionally for Kapha

Hypothyroid I may also give Trikatu an appropriate Dosha pacifying

diet.

> I just wondered if there are better alternatives than Kanchanara

guugul, as in my experience I find the patient has to take it for at

least 6 months before they see the benefit - especially so in

chronic cases.

 

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>From my own experience as a thyroid patient, I'd use the

thyroid supplement meds, starting with a T4 med, and likely

moving to a natural T4/T3 med within a couple of years.

Most hypothyroid today is caused by autoimmunity, hashimoto's

thyroiditis. That needs to be verified by testing, so you

know whether you're dealing with autoimmune, or simple hypothyroid

likely caused by lack of iodine (rare today). If autoimmune,

the last thing you want to do is kick the thyroid to "produce"

as antibodies will attack the thryoid and it's output at that

site and you exacerbate the illness. Circulating thyroid via

the meds is not attacked. In Hashi, avoid anything that kicks

the thyroid like high iodine or super immune boosters, e.g. kelp,

shellfish, ginseng, ashwaghanda, selenium. I know guggul is

traditional ayurveda, but I would not use, or irritating trikatu

spices in hashimotos which is an inflammatory condition, pitta

aggravation, but results in hypothyroid. Anti-pitta is good

for hashi on general principles, along with thyroid med

supplementation. I realize this is a non classical ayurveda

answer, but we know a lot more about hashimotos and other

autoimmune conditions now than in earlier times, and we need

to incorporate that into our thinking. Why all the hashimotos

in the present day? mercury, perchlorates in water, and other

environmental endocrine disruptors... I knew a young woman from

India who developed Hashi about 10-12 mo. after she had come to

Silicon Valley...perchlorates in water.

 

Hope this helps,

 

Carol Willis

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