Coronary Artery Diseases
CAD, the most common heart disease .It occurs when the blood supplying arteries become narrowed/hardened/spasmodic. It may be due to deposition of cholesterol/fatty material which is preceded by inflammation of the cells of lumen of arteries that may be due to oxidative stress/ mental stress.
Causes
Non-modifiable Factors; Age, Gender, Genes, Race-African Americans, Mexican Americans, American Indians, Hawaiians, and some Asian Americans also have a higher risk for heart problems.
Modifiable Factors; There are life style/ [Chronic diseases like DM,BP,KD ,FLD ]related risk factors should be taken care are habit of panicking, smoking, drugs, lack of physical exercise/ work, extra sensitive nature, excessive & constant mental stress, late dinners ,no time gap in between dinner & sleeping, frequent eating without digestion of previous meal / deep fried food.
Treatments
Health is an active dynamic state & disease is a passive phenomenon, because if we are unable to synchronise the biological required life style & dietary habits in concordance to environmental variations then we are bound to fell ill.
Human body is like a sea, one small wave creates disturbance almost whole of the system, so approach to reverse the pathological disturbances [diseases] should be of integral nature to target the disturbed mechanics to reverse them, any agent working on single/two mechanisms cannot be the cure, but can create havoc.
In ayurveda Heart diseases are described in details along with the treatment option & that approach is found very effective in treating various heart diseases CAD, valvular disorders, arrhythmias CHF.
CAD specially is an outcome of faulty life style generated metabolic syndrome & hence the disease process involved can be reversed effectively in most of cases with the help of ayurveda medicines & adaption in biological required life style.