Herbal Remedies for Chest Pain
About Chest Pain
Chest pain is any sort of pain felt in your upper body, from your jaw down to the bottom of your ribs. It is the sensation of chest pain, pressure, squeezing occurring due to ischemia of heart muscles from spasm of coronary arteries. Chest pain can occur due to many different problems. Crushing and burning sensations are witnessed during chest pain.
Causes of Chest Pain
Following are the causes of chest pain:-
- Heart Related Causes: This can include Heart attack, angina (chest pain due to poor blood flow), aortic dissection, pericarditis (inflammation of sac surrounding the heart). Chest pain can also be due to a sudden blockage of a coronary (heart) artery.
- Digestive causes: This type of chest pain can occur due to various digestive system related problems such as Heartburn, Swallowing disorders and Gallbladder or pancreas problem.
- Muscle and bone causes: These are mostly injury related causes and arises due to Sore muscles, Costochondritis and Injured ribs.
- Lung related causes: This may include Collapsed lung, Pleurisy, Pulmonary embolism and pulmonary hypertension.
These are some of the major causes that leads to chest pain.
- Other causes: Panic attack and Shingles (caused due to chicken pox virus reactivation).
There are two different categories of symptoms:-
SYMPTOMS THAT ARISE OUT OF HEART RELATED CHEST PAIN
| SYMPTOMS THAT ARISE OUT OF HEART RELATED CHEST PAIN
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SYMPTOMS THAT ARISE OUT OF OTHER CHEST PAIN |
| Pressure fullness or burning or tightness in the chest | Trouble swallowing |
| Frequent summing and going of pain | Tenderness when you push the chest |
| Nausea or vomiting | Intense pain while breathing or coughing |
| Cold sweats | Sour taste of food |
| Dizziness or weakness | Continuous pain for many hours |
Diagnosis of Chest Pain
The initial way to diagnose chest pain is to go through physical examination and conducting patient history.
In case of severe symptoms, following techniques are adopted:-
- Angiogram – This is done for detection of any blockages in the arteries.
- MRI – This is done to examine any kind of damage to heart or aorta.
- Stress test – To measure the functioning if the heart after doing some kind of work out
- Chest X-ray – This is done to check complete interrelated system that is heart lungs and blood vessels.
- Blood tests – This test is done to measure certain types of enzyme levels.
- Electrocardiogram – In this particular method, electrical activity of heart is measured.
So these are some of the diagnosis methods that is used to check if there is any kind of problem that is severe.
The Goodnews!?
The good news is that Chest Pain is preventable and reversible, but can only be possible by using holistic approach, the one advocated in Ayurveda that addresses the issues from the very root.
Since ancient times, Ayurveda has defined diseases with their symptoms, causes and healing methods with nature.
If you are having any of the above mentioned symptoms, don’t assume it is Chest Pain yet without any proper diagnosis because there are other Chest related diseases that comes with the same symptoms. Consult with a Doctor for accurate diagnosis to find out if Chest Pain is what you are having or any other related disease.
Vine-Health Approach to Chest Pain
As a holistic health clinic, we take accurate diagnosis very seriously in order to ascertain the root cause of a particular illness. You will be consulted with our doctor to know the type of test or scan to run base on your symptoms to detect exactly the root cause of your issue to ascertain if Chest Pain is your issue or not to ensure appropriate treatment.
Accurate diagnosis is the key to the treatment of any disease.
We can really help you out of the issue!
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