Raynaud’s syndrome or Vasospasms or Raynaud’s disease, also called Raynaud’s phenomenon or vasospastic attacks, is a condition affecting the circulatory system. Restricted or interrupted blood flow (vasospasms), to the fingers, toes, ears, nose and/or nipples.

Sometimes healthy people can also experience Raynaud’s syndrome. This form is called primary Raynaud’s; doctors aren’t entirely sure of its cause. Stress and cooler temperatures, GIT have been identified as risk factors for the phenomenon.

Primary Raynaud’s is considered less severe and generally affects young adults (under age 30). Secondary Raynaud’s generally affects older adults.

Raynaud’s also appears to be more prevalent in women than in men.

In my (Dr Qaisar Ahmed) opinion cause of vasospasms could be any of below mentioned:

• A low stage anaphylactic shock (allergic reaction due to … there could be many reasons)
• Blood thickness (many causes…).
• Cardiac insufficiency (many causes…).
• Minerals deficiency especially “Potassium, Phosphorus and Zinc”.
• Hepatic malfunctioning.

During my practice from 2001 till now (April 2022) I (Dr Qaisar Ahmed) personally treated more then 786 patients with diagnosis of Raynaud’s syndrome and almost all with Homeopathic medicines.

Symptoms

Raynaud’s syndrome or Vasospasms can affect various parts of the body, most commonly it develops in the fingers and toes.

Blood vessels in these areas will temporarily constrict or spasm, the skin changes color as blood flow is disrupted. When the vessels reopen, skin often flushes red.

Symptoms can differ between patients, but are likely to include one or more of the following:

• Discoloration of the fingers or toes (may turn pale, white, or even blue when exposed to the cold or stressful situations).
• Skin that feels cold to the touch (due to low blood circulation).
• Lost sensation in affected areas.
• Itching (temporally) of the affected area(s).
• Swelling and/or pain in the affected organ(s) when warmed, numbness or tingling.
• Sores on finger pads (serious cases).
• Gangrene in fingers leading to infection (rare but nonreversible with simple allopathic drugs, this patient need urgent Homeopathic treatment).

Secondary Raynaud’s is triggered by an underlying condition.

Several autoimmune and connective tissue diseases have a common association with secondary Raynaud’s disease. They include:

• Lupus
• Scleroderma
• CREST syndrome
• Buerger’s disease
• Sjogren’s syndrome
• Rheumatoid arthritis
• Occlusive vascular disease, like atherosclerosis
• Polymyositis
• Blood disorders
• Pulmonary hypertension
• Thyroid disorders

Allopathic treatment for Raynaud’s syndrome or Vasospasms

There is no cure for Raynaud’s disease in allopathic way of treatment accept some precautions like Wearing gloves or thicker socks… removing and adding them when necessary.

1. Surgery (sympathectomy – which has no any positive results, may reduce the frequency and severity of flare-ups or attacks).
2. Topically Nitroglycerine gels/ointments.
3. Hypertension medication, Calcium-channel blockers and vasodilators.

Homeopathic treatment for Raynaud’s syndrome or Vasospasms

While in Homeopathy there are number of medicines for Raynaud’s syndrome or vasospasms diseases. Here are few of them:

Secale Cor:

Secale Cor is extremely useful Homeopathic medicines for raynaud’s syndrome. The guiding symptoms for using Secale Cor are icy cold and numb fingers and toes from vasospasm. Formication, tingling in the fingers and toes, slow developing gangrene.

Carbo Veg:

Carbo Veg is indicated for bluish, marbled cold fingers and toes followed by redness, gangrene of the fingers and toes. Heavy, stiff; feel paralyzed; limbs, go to sleep; want of muscular energy; joints weak. Senile gangrene beginning in toes; bed sores; bleed easily. Falling out of hair, from a general weakened condition. Indolent ulcers, burning pain. Ichorous, offensive discharge; tendency to gangrene of the margins. Purpura. Varicose ulcers, carbuncles.

Calceria Flour:

Best for vascular tumors with dilated blood-vessels, and for varicose or enlarged veins. Aneurysm. Valvular disease. When an chronic infection attack the heart and blood-vessels. Ganglia or encysted tumors at the back of the wrist. Gouty enlargements of the joints of the fingers. Exostoses on fingers. Chronic synovitis of knee-joint. Whiteness of skin. Scar tissue; adhesions after operations. Chaps and cracks. Fissures or cracks in the palms of the hands, or hard skin. Fissure of the anus. Suppurations with callous, hard edges. Whitlow. Indolent, fistulous ulcers, secreting thick, yellow pus. Hard, elevated edges of ulcer, surrounding skin purple and swollen. Knots, kernels, hardened glands in the female breast. Swellings or indurated enlargements having their seat in the fascia and capsular ligaments of joints, or in the tendons. Indurations of stony hardness.

Caulophyllum:

Discoloration of skin. Severe drawing, erratic pain and stiffness in small joints, fingers, toes, ankles, etc. Aching in wrists. Cutting pains on closing hands. Erratic pains, changing place every few minutes.

Agaricus Muscarious:

Agaricus is the top listed Homeopathic medicines for raynaud’s disease. It is indicated when the blood flow to the fingers and toes is compromised on being exposed to the cold atmosphere, numbness, coldness, blueness in the fingers and toes; may be followed by pin or needle-like pricking sensations in the fingers and toes, chilblains and frostbites. Burning pain in the arms, followed by an eruption of small pimples with scaling of the epidermis. Paleness and numbness of the fingers, which are, at the same time, very sensitive to cold. Itching, burning pain, and redness in the fingers. Itching and titillation, Itching, burning pain, and redness.

Arsenicum:

Arsenicum Album is a homeopathic remedy which is recommended for patients having cold sensation, followed by burning, itchiness and swelling, restless, do not tolerate cold, Trembling, twitching, spasms, weakness, heaviness, uneasiness. Cramps in calves. Swelling of feet. Burning pains. Peripheral neuritis. Diabetic gangrene. Ulcers on heel. Paralysis of lower limbs with atrophy, oedema, eruption, papular, dry, rough, scaly; worse cold and scratching. Malignant pustules. Ulcers with offensive discharge. Anthrax. Poisoned wounds.

Lamium:

Tearing in the extremities. Haemoptysis. Blisters on heel from slight rubbing. Ulcers on heel. Torpor and crawling numbness of hand, and of the fleshy part of thumb. Painful sensation of rawness in the parts on moving the hand. Tearing and drawing in fingers. Intermittent drawing, pressive tearing on lower posterior muscles of thigh (while sitting). Blister on heel from slight rubbing, afterwards bursting and changing to an ulcer with smarting and biting. Great restlessness of body and mind, with trembling of limbs. Smarting and stinging in the ulcer with redness and swelling around it. Ulcers, with pain as from excoriation, and shootings.

Camphor:

Pains with icy coldness, better for warmth, worse from motion and cold. Numbness, tingling and coldness.Pain better while thinking of it. Very sensitive to cold and to touch. Skin cold, pale, blue, livid. Pressure and acute drawing in the arm and forearm. Hands icy cold. Hands do not feel anything he touches. Fingers stiff, open, distorted; thumb drawn back.

Digitalis:

Amaurosis. Angina pectoris. Asthma. Bright’s disease. Cyanosis. Delirium tremens. Dropsy. Drawing pains in the back and in the loins, as after a chill. Heart affections. Paralytic pullings, heaviness and tearings in the arms. Lungs congestion. Memory lost. Meningitis. Noises in head. Paraphimosis. Prostate, enlarged. Ptyalism. Spermatorrhoea. Toothache. Urinary disorders. Vision, disorders. Nocturnal swelling of the hand/fingers. Coldness of the hands. Tearings in the joints of the fingers. Sudden and paralytic stiffness in the fingers. Torpor and disposition to numbness of the fingers. Gnawing itching, which changes, if the skin be not scratched, into a burning and insupportable pricking. Elastic white swelling of the whole body. General paleness of the skin.

Phosphorus:

Ascending sensory and motor paralysis from ends of fingers and toes. Stitches in elbow and shoulder joints. Burning of feet. Weakness and trembling, from every exertion,  necrosis of lower jaw.

Can scarcely hold anything with his hands. Tibia inflamed and becomes necrosed. Arms and hands become numb. Can lie only on right side.

Post-diphtheritic paralysis, with formication of hands and feet. Joints suddenly give way, Wounds bleed very much, even if small; they heal and break out again. Jaundice.

Little ulcer outside of large ones. Petechiae. Ecchymosis. Purpura hemorrhage. Scurvy. Fungous haematodes and excrescences.

Fistulous tracts after mammary abscess, Stitching pain in mammae, Suppuration of mammae, burning, watery, offensive discharge.

All Homeopathic medicines explained in cardiovascular diseases and in angina pectoris could be advised for Raynaud’s syndrome or Vasospasms.

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