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Coronary heart disease is also known as coronary artery disease. Coronary heart disease happens when a mixture of fatty material, calcium, and scar tissue build up on the walls of coronary arteries which supply the heart with blood. Through these arteries, the heart muscle gets the oxygen and other nutrients it necessitates to pump blood. Plaque is like a hard shell with soft inner containing cholesterol. It narrows the arteries and stops the heart from receiving sufficient blood. It is the most familiar type of cardiovascular disease. Coronary heart disease develops gradually over numerous years. Females should be more careful, because a female’s heart is slighter and they also have narrower coronary arteries as compared to that of males; so it takes a lesser amount of plague to block them.

Coronary heart disease

Coronary heart disease can guide to angina, which is chest tenderness that happens when there isn’t sufficient oxygen-rich blood flowing to your heart. Your threat for developing heart attacks, blood clots, heart failure, and arrhythmias also rises when you have coronary heart disease. Some symptoms of coronary heart disease can take off symptoms of other diseases.

coronary artery disease

If medications for Coronary heart disease do not completely lessen your state, then it is essential for you to undergo surgery. Surgical treatments that help those suffering from coronary heart disease consist of coronary angioplasty, coronary artery bypass surgery, heart catheterization, atherectomy, and radiation brachytherapy.

Risk factors for developing coronary heart disease include smoking, excessive drinking, high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol, obesity, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, diabetes, inactivity, stress.

Abdominal Breathing – In this breathing technique when you inhale your stomach should physically go into its resting position. Movement of stomach in and out ensures the filling of lower lungs also. This breathing pattern is related to our condition of relaxation. When you are tense, your breathing automatically shifts to chest breathing and the speed of breathing also increases.

Abdomina breathing for Heart Disease

When you are relaxed, your breathing is abdominal, slow rhythmic, noiseless and shake less. But if by wrong habit you are doing chest breathing, it means you are unreasonably keeping yourself tense and hence your hearth rate will also be high. So in case you have this wrong pattern of breathing, consciously learn abdominal breathing. The key to good quality breathing practice is to be relaxed in the shoulders, diaphragm and the stomach. Read the rest of this entry »

Ayurvedic herbs and medicines for heart diseases (Angina, Heart Attack)

1. Arjuna (Terminalia Arjuna): – Bark of Arjuna tree is very good to prevent heart problems. It reduces LDL (bad cholesterol), helps in blood circulation, improves strength of cardiac muscle and maintains the health of the heart.

2. Garlic: – Helps to lower cholesterol level of blood, destroys plaque, prevents blood clot.

3. Turmeric: – Helps to prevent blood clots and lower cholesterol level of blood.

4. Guggul (Commifora mukul): – It helps to improve the level of High Density Lipoprotein, to lower blood – fat level. It is useful for cardiac ischemia and atherosclerosis.

5. Ginger: – Helps to prevent blood clots and reduces blood cholesterol.

6. Cinnamomum Zeylanicumm: – It is known as “Dalchini” in India. It is very useful for lowering cholesterol. It should be used regularly. It works as an anti-oxidant and provide strength to heart muscle.

7. Hawthron: – It is very useful for heart. It gives strength to the heart muscle and flow of blood to the heart.

8. Indula racemosa: – It is grown in upper Himalaya, also useful for preventing heart attack.

9. Alfalfa: – Plaque deposits along the inner wall of arteries and also levels of blood cholesterol are reduced by Alfalfa leaves.

10. Gourd: – Gourd juice can be taken for reducing blockage in coronary arteries.

Ayurvedic medicines

1. If one gram of powder made from equal parts of the fruit rind of chebulic myrobalan (Haritaki) and rhizome of sweet flag (vaca) is taken with honey twice a day then it will be useful.

2. If two grams of powder prepared from sweet flag, as a foetida and costus root is taken at intervals of two hours it will also be useful.

Author: S.N. Bhattacharya