Homeopathic treatment
Before delving into homeopathic treatment let us first discuss the conventional or allopathic treatment available.
Allopathic / conventional treatment of neurofibroma or neurofibromatosis (NF) or
von Recklinghausen's disease involves the surgical removal of the tumors but the
tumors have a tendency to come back. For symptoms like café au lait spots no treatment
is given. Radiation therapy (localized treatment of tumors with targeted x-ray beams)
may also be needed.
Sometimes the tumors are in such a place that they cannot be removed surgically.
Tumors that cause pain or loss of function are removed on an individual basis.
In contrast homeopathy treatment can save you from the surgeon’s knife and the other
symptoms of the disease can effectively be taken care of with medicines.
Homoeopathy is not against surgery but it often minimizes the use of this painful
and terrifying procedure.
Diseased tissue (tumors) is not the cause of disease and its removal from the body
will not prevent the recurrence of the disease after the surgery. Homeopathy treats
the cause and not the effect. With proper treatment not only diseased tissue
will be healthy but the recurrences can be prevented as the vitality is raised by
the remedies.
The tumors start regressing in size with proper treatment.
Also the other skin symptoms, the spinal symptoms, freckles and so on can be managed
easily with the medicines.
Homeopathic treatment can be started on seeing the early signs of the disease like
café au lait spots and its progress can be stopped in the beginning only.
Every family has typical "weak spots" in the health - some families have history
of heart diseases, some of cancer, some of hormonal disorders, some of arthritis
and so on. All these weaknesses are written down as potential in the genes, especially
if both parents of the person have the same health disorders already expressed,
or in their family health history. Chronic diseases which are repeated within the
family are so often very difficult to solve, because people who carry them usually
BELIEVE that inherited disorders are not possible to heal, consciously or subconsciously.
For all such false believes the answer is homeopathic treatment. Medicines can
take care of the predisposition to a disease. Remedies strengthen the body to counter
hereditary problems.
I have found in my clinical experience that homeopathic medicines often replace
the conventional drugs and eliminate the need for heroic procedures. Ideally, homeopathy
doctors are taking the best of the natural science to create a kind of care that
will be commonplace in future.
There are 9 medicines which give relief in neurofibroma or neurofibromatosis
(NF) or von Recklinghausen's disease. However, the correct choice and the resulting
relief is a matter of experience and right judgment on the part of the physician.
The treatment is decided after thorough case taking of the patient. Thus remedies
are designer made unlike allopathy in which all patients receive the same surgery
or drugs although trade name may be different.
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What is neurofibroma or neurofibromatosis (NF) or Von Recklinghausen's disease
A neurofibroma or neurofibromatosis or Von Recklinghausen's Disease is a benign
nerve sheath tumor in the peripheral nervous system. Usually found in individuals
with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1), a genetically-inherited disease.
It is a genetic disease in which patients develop multiple soft tumors (neurofibromas).
These tumors occur under the skin and throughout the nervous system.
In this disease, a genetic defect causes these neural crest cells (neural crest
cells are primitive cells which exist during fetal development) to develop abnormally.
This results in numerous tumors and malformations of the nerves, bones, and skin.
Neurofibromatosis occurs in about one of every 4,000 births. Two types of NF exist,
NF-1 (90% of all cases), and NF-2 (10% of all cases).
Causes
Both forms of neurofibroma or neurofibromatosis are caused by a defective gene.
NF-1 is due to a defect on chromosome 17; NF-2 results from a defect on chromosome
22. Both of these disorders are inherited in a dominant fashion. This means that
anybody who receives just one defective gene will have the disease.
It is interesting to note that only about half of all cases show a family history
of the disease. The other cases occur because a specific gene spontaneously changes
its structure (mutates). A person with this type of spontaneous mutation can then
pass that gene onto his or her offspring. There is a 50% chance that a parent with
neurofibroma or neurofibromatosis will pass the gene on to a child.
Symptoms & diagnosis
To be given the diagnosis of neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1), an individual must
have at least two of the following features. Some people with NF1 have only two,
while others can have several of these features:
- Six or more cafe-au-lait spots, or coffee-colored birthmarks, each measuring over
an inch in adults (1/4 inch in children).
- Two of more benign skin tumors called neurofibromas or one diffuse tumor of the
soft tissue called a plexiform neurofibroma.
- Freckles under the arm or in the groin region.
- A tumor of the nerve to the eye called an optic glioma.
- Two or more spots on the iris of the eye called Lisch nodules.
- A problem of one of the bones such as bowing of a leg, with or without a fracture.
- A parent, brother, sister, or child with NF1.
Individuals with (NF2) have fewer outward signs of the condition than individuals
with NF1. To be given the diagnosis of NF2, an individual must have the following
features:
Benign tumors on both sides of the head involving the nerves for hearing and balance,
called acoustic neuromas or vestibular schwannomas
or
Family history of NF2 (a first-degree relative, i.e. mother, father, brother, sister,
or child, with NF2) AND one of the following:
- An acoustic neuroma or vestibular schwannoma on one side of the head before the
age of 30, or
- Any two of the following : meningioma, glioma, schwannoma, juvenile posterior subcapsular
lenticular opacities / juvenile cortical cataract.