HOMOEOPATHIC REMEDIES FOR BREAST LUMP
A
breast lump is swelling, a growth, or a lump in the breast. Breast lumps in
both men and women raise concern for breast cancer , even though most lumps are not
cancer.
Both males
and females of all ages have normal breast tissue. This tissue responds to
hormone changes. Because of this, lumps can come and go.
Breast
lumps may appear at any age:---
Both male
and female infants may have breast lumps from their mother's estrogen when they
are born. The lump will most often go away on its own as the estrogen clears
from the baby's body.
Young
girls often develop "breast buds," which appear just before the
beginning of puberty. These bumps may be tender. They are common around age 9,
but may happen as early as age 6.
Teenage
boys may develop breast enlargement and lumps because of hormone changes in
mid-puberty. Although this may be upsetting to boys, the lumps or growth almost
always go away on their own over a period of months.
Causes--
Lumps in a woman are often caused by fibrocystic changes, fibroadenomas, and
cysts.
Fibrocystic
changes are painful, lumpy breasts. Fibrocystic breast changes do not increase
your risk of breast cancer. Symptoms are most often worse right before your
menstrual period, and then improve after your period starts
Fibroadenomas are
noncancerous lumps that feel rubbery. They move easily inside the breast
tissue. Like fibrocystic changes, they occur most often during the reproductive
years.They are most often not tender. Except in rare cases, they do not become
cancerous later. A health care provider can feel during an exam whether a lump
is a fibroadenoma. The only way to be sure, however, is to remove or biopsy the
lump.
Cysts are fluid-filled sacs that often feel like soft grapes.
These can sometimes be tender, often just before your menstrual period.
Other
causes of breast lumps include:
·
Breast cancer.
·
Injury. Blood may collect and feel
like a lump if your breast gets badly bruised. These lumps tend to get better
on their own in a few days or weeks. If they do not improve, your provider may
have to drain the blood.
·
Lipoma. This is a collection of fatty
tissue.
·
Milk cysts (sacs filled with milk)
and infections (mastitis ), which may turn into an abscess . These
typically occur if you are breastfeeding or have recently given birth.
HOMOEOPATHIC REMEDIES
BRYONIA ALBA 1M- Bryonia
alba is indicated when breast lump with stitching pain
is present . The breast is hard and painful. Pain in breast at menstrual
period. The breast pain aggravates during movement.
CALCAREA CARB 30-.An excellent remedy for
breast lump .Breasts are hot and swollen. Chronic cystic mastitis. Blunt
duct adenosis; best remedy for fibroadenoma. Lump in breast is hard, nodular
and tender to touch in the beginning. Then the pains are reduced and the lump
turns to be hard due to calcification. Calcarea acts best when the tumours are
calcified. These breasts are swollen and tender before menses. Deficient
lactation. The breasts are distended in lymphatic women. Patient complains of
profuse sweating around the genitalia with dirty smell . Inflammatory condition
of the breast. With breast condition patient has the mental symptoms due to
sufferings. Patient is anxious, tired and weak, both mentally and physically.
CALCAREA
FLOUR 30- Calcarea flour. Is another top remedy for
lump in breast. Lump in the breast which is hard, movable with
clear margins which are sharp in nature, or their edges are sharply defined.
Most commonly they are solitary, very rarely multiple. Occurs in young patients
usually unmarried. Nodules are in upper right quadrants. The patient is sad and
depressed due to financial condition. Confused due to melancholic condition of
mind. Patient is chilly, and she is very sensitive to cold air, cold wind and
cold atmosphere in general. Genitals are sore. Urine is copious and offensive.
Pain at the tip of the urethra while urinating and after the act. Pain in back
extending to sacrum.
CONIUM
MACULATUM 30-Conium
maculatum is one of the top remedies for breast lump. Here the mammary glands
are hard and sore. A typical carcinoma of the breast, that is, scirrhous
adenocarcinoma, which begins in the ducts and ends in the parenchyma. As the
stage advances the Cooper's ligament shortens and thus it produces the notch.
Sometimes the condition is associated with the inflammation of the breast
tissue. The region is hard and nodular, tender to touch. Burning and stinging
pains in the breast. The skin over the tumour is adherent. Occasionally there
is discharge of pus from the nipple. The lesion is hard, almost cartilaginous.
The edges are distinct, serrated and irregular; associated with productive
fibrosis.
BARYTA
CARB 30--
Baryta carb is very effective for breast lump.Inflammation, induration and
enlargement are the fundamental pathogeneses of this drug. The mammary gland is
enlarged and there is a lump, which is hard. There is very sensitive to touch.
The glands which are enlarged are tender with infiltration. The women of late
twenties are affected. These patients present with hard but not serrated mass
with firm rubbery consistency. Their edges are sharply defined. Most commonly
the tumours solitary. or occasionally are multiple. They are differentiated
from cancer by smooth rather than irregular lobulations. A bloody discharge
from nipple is indication of this drug. All the glands of the body are very
sensitive to cold and they are worse by taking cold. The skin over the gland
becomes ulcerated. It is seen that this remedy works better in Paget's disease
of nipple which is supposed to be primary carcinoma of the mammary gland.
BELLIS PERENNIS 30-Bellis perennis is
prescribed when the lump is caused by a trauma that causes injury to deeper
tissues of the breast . The main indication is sore, bruised feeling in breast.
Breasts engorged.
CHIMAPHILIA
UMBELLATA 30- Chimaphilia is indicated for painful tumor of mammae in
women of large breasts .There
is sharp pain through breast.
HYDRASTIS
CANADENSIS 30—Hydrastis
is prescribed to those patients who have the tendency to indurated glands.
Swelling of the mammary glands. Fat necrosis and glandular cell myoblastoma are
common in this remedy. Fat necrosis tumour is probably post-traumatic. Patient
complains of pain and tenderness. The lesion is fixed to the breast tissue, which
sometimes causes dimpling of the overlying skin. Engorged nipples, cracks and
discharges of watery fluid or there is serosanguinous discharge. The patient is
weak and emaciated, fainting due to improper assimilation or defective
assimilation. All-gone sensation or empty feeling in the stomach, not relieved
by eating. Chronic catarrhal condition of the membrane of the stomach. Patient
is thirstless. Obstinate constipation, colicky and crampy pain in the abdomen.
Liver is enlarged and tender.
IODUM
30-This
remedy predominantly acts on the enlargement of the mammary glands which may be
either neo-plastic or malignant. The mucous membranes of the glands and the
breast tissue are inflamed. The breast tissues are hypertrophied, enlarged,
hard and nodular. Emaciation of the patient due to malabsorption. The tumours
are well differentiated. They have a discrete capsule. Small lesions present
leaf-like intracanalicular protrusions and large lesions have cystic space.
Inflammation of the lesions, ulceration occasionally, excoriating and acrid
discharge from the nipple or from the lesion. Oedematous swelling of the
affected breast.
LAPIS
ALBUS 30-The
main action of this remedy is on the glands of mammary region. These glands
have the tendency to turn malignant. Remarkable results are observed in
scrofulous condition of the glands. Fibroid tumours, intense burning pains in
the parts. The tumours have pliability and a kind of softness rather than
hardness. The margins are clear. The glands are elasticity, exactly the reverse
of Calc. fluorica.
PHYTOLACCA DEC. 30-Phytolacca is another
remedy effective for lump in breast. Mammae hard an very sensitive. Tumors of
the breast with enlargement of axillary glands. When child nurses pain goes
from the nipple all over the body. Irritable breast before and during menses.
PLUMBUM IODIDE 30-Plumbum iodide is another
effective remedy for breast lump. There are indurations of breast, especially
when a tendency to become inflamed , appears sore and painful.Indurations of
great hardness and associated with a very dry skin.
SCROPHULARIA NODOSA Q-- Scrophularia has
specific affinity for the breast. It is very useful in the dissipation of
breast tumours.
THYROIDINUM
1M- An intercurrent remedy
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