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Sleep apnea refers to momentary pauses in the breathing (varying from seconds to minutes) during sleep. There are three types of sleep apnea: obstructive sleep apnea, central sleep apnea, and mixed sleep apnea. Homeopathic medicines for sleep apnea help alleviate the symptoms as well as the body’s tendency to slow or pause breathing due to the condition. The top homeopathic medicines for sleep apnea include Lachesis, Ammonium Carb, and Lemna Minor.
Homeopathic medicines for Obstructed Sleep Apnea.
Obstructive sleep apnea – OSA means interrupted breathing episodes arising from obstructed airways that hinder the flow of air into the lungs mainly due to relaxation of throat muscles during sleep. In central sleep apnea, there is no blockage of the airways, and it arises from a failure of the brain to signal the airway muscles. In mixed sleep apnea, obstructive sleep apnea, as well as central sleep apnea both, appear together. Among these, the obstructive sleep apnea accounts for the majority of sleep apnea cases. Obstructive sleep apnea makes around 80% to 85% of diagnosed cases of sleep apnea. Obstructive sleep apnea is a very common but severe sleep disorder.
Homeopathic Treatment for Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Some of the well indicated homeopathic medicines to treat obstructive sleep apnea are Lachesis, Ammonium Carb, Agraphis Nutans, Lemna Minor, Sanguinaria Nitricum, Grindelia Robusta, Opium, and Sambucus. The selection of medicines for OSA is made individually for every case keeping in view the symptom presentation as well as the reason behind it. Homeopathic medicines help in OSA by aiming to treat the cause behind it. The homeopathic medicines for OSA are very safe to use among people of all the age group and manage it in a highly safe, natural and efficient manner. The homeopathic medicines for obstructive sleep apnea should be taken only after evaluation by a homeopathic physician.
Homeopathic Medicines for Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Lachesis – Top Homeopathic Medicines for Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Lachesis is a natural medicine for obstructive sleep apnea where a person wakes up frequently due to obstructed breathing. The person may need to sit up and needs to take a deep breath. Fear of going to sleep may also prevail among them. Such subjects also cannot tolerate anything tight around their neck like collars.
Ammonium Carb and Agraphis Nutans – To Manage OSA with Enlarged Adenoids or Tonsils
Both Ammonium Carb and Agraphis Nutans works well in cases of OSA that links with enlarged adenoids or enlarged tonsils. The indicating features to use Ammonium Carb are blocked nose at night, inability to breathe through the nose, waking with starting from sleep. Excessive sleepiness during the daytime is also well noted. The symptoms for using Agraphis Nutans are enlarged tonsils or enlarged adenoids with obstructive sleep apnea, obstruction of nose, tendency to take cold frequently. In addition to these symptoms, deafness or ear discharge may be present.
Lemna Minor and Sanguinaria Nitricum – For OSA with Nasal Polyps Complaint
For managing OSA, homeopathic medicines Lemna Minor and Sanguinaria Nitricum are highly suitable. Lemna Minor offers help in cases when the symptoms are OSA with stuffed nostrils from polyps, foul smell from the nose, thick yellow-white discharge from the nose and snoring.
Sanguinaria Nitricum is useful when symptoms include OSA with the dryness of nostrils, yellow-bloody mucus discharge from the nose, sneezing, burning in nostrils, desire for fresh air, and poor/restless sleep. Nasal turbinate hypertrophy may be present along with nasal polyps for using both these medicines.
Grindelia Robusta – For OSA in Asthmatic Individuals
Grindelia Robusta is a natural medicine for OSA in asthmatic patients where the person stops breathing while sleep and wakes with a start suddenly. There is a need to sit up to breathe as well as oppression felt in the chest with tough, tenacious white expectoration and wheezing.
Opium: For Obstructive Sleep Apnea with Snoring
Opium offers a natural treatment for obstructive sleep apnea when a person tends to snore deeply. The person faces spells of stopped breathing upon going to sleep and may also feel suffocated. Excessive drowsiness and sluggishness during the day may be there.
Sambucus – For Obstructive Sleep Apnea Management in Children
Sambucus is an effective medicine for obstructive sleep apnea in children. The child needing Sambucus wakes up suddenly during sleep feeling suffocated. He sits up and gasps for breath. The episodes of pauses of breathing are repeated several times during sleep. Increased sweating also attends. Nose is dry and obstructed.
Managing Sleep Apnea
The key actions that can help manage obstructive sleep apnea include weight management, avoiding alcohol, quitting smoking, sleeping on sides instead of back, avoiding the use of sleeping pills or tranquilizers.
Causes and Risk Factors of Sleep Apnea
The primary reason for obstructive sleep apnea is an extreme relaxation of the nose or throat muscles during sleep. Obesity, thick/large neck are the major risk factors for obstructive sleep apnea. Enlarged adenoids and tonsils are yet another prominent factors linked with obstructive sleep apnea. Structural deformities of the nose like DNS – deviated nasal septum may also result in OSA. The rest important risk factors include smoking, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, sleeping pills, tranquilizers, asthma, nose blockage from nasal polyps, nasal allergies, and sinus complaints. The chances of OSA are found to be higher in males as compared to females. A family history of OSA also predisposes a person to get the same condition. A person with age 40 yrs and older are more prone to develop OSA.
Symptoms of Obstructive Sleep Apnea
The symptoms of obstructive sleep apnea include loud snoring, sudden waking from sleep with gasping/choking, restless sleep, intense sleepiness/drowsiness during the daytime, problems with concentration during the day. Other symptoms include high irritability, mood changes, morning headaches, increased heart rate, high blood pressure, decreased sex drive, excessive sweating, poor performance in daily activities like at workplace or school.
Complications of Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Obstructive sleep apnea may lead to various complications like sleepiness during the daytime, weakness/fatigue, many mental symptoms (like irritability, depression, mood changes), hypertension, arrhythmias, cardiac complaints, stroke, type 2 diabetes and more.
My son aged 43 is suffering from sleep apnea and using CPAP machine for last 5-6 yrs and often gets gtemporary high bp. Kindly make an appointment for him to personally assess his problems.Reply on my Email
Hi sir, my son is 11 yrs old and having Symptoms of Obstructive Sleep Apnea. His adenoid surgery happened last year in May’2023 in a a quite named hospital by senior ENT surgeon. But recent X-ray shows the adenoid is regrown. He is again suffering from severe Obstructive Sleep Apnea.
Kindly advise can Homeopathy cure the Obstructive Sleep Apnea in his case OR we have to again re-do adenoid removal surgery ?
Hi Sir
I am Suffering from Severe OSA from Last 3 years and using CPAP. My height is 5’10” weight is 89. very healthy/active life style , doing Yoga regularly and trying to complete 10k steps of walk daily. controlled diet, not taking dinner from last many years. having lot of fruits and veges as a part of diet.
Is it treatable in homeopathy ?
Respected Dr.
I have been suffering from OSA for last six months. I use CPAP at night. Sir, please let me know it’s remady. Thanks
I am 54 years male suffering from OSA for 3 months. My hight is 152 cm and weight is 74 Kgs. According to sleep test my AHI is 44.2.Can my OSA get cured by homeopathic medicines. Plz reply
Age:81, wt 69kg, height 173. CABG CASE. Suffering from OSA for the last 6 months. I doNOT KNOW if I have allergy or upper airways inflamed or filled with mucus or dry. If Homoeopathy can help me ? Otherwise Jai Mata Di
Thank you Dr.
I have been suffering from Obstructive Sleep apnea with snoring. I am 5 ft. 5 inch. and with 70 Kg. If I take Opium, how will I take the medicine? or what is dose for it?
Hi, my mom is 45 years old and had osa form past 2 years she she had less sleep in nights and had multiple sleep pause during her sleep it’s impossible for her to sleep at night which caused her headache losing memory she also had 2 stroke from last past months her condition is not good she also have obesity
Kindly reply if u treat her as soon as possible because the condition is severe
My partner has had a nasal drip since he was young he is now 27. This causes him to have increased mucosa in his throat, he has a septum concave, and DNS from a past fracture.
The past 4 days he has been really struggling to breathe, needing to take in a big gasp of air every couple of minutes or so. He wakes up in the middle of the night gasping for air. He states “it’s like my body just forgot to breathe.”
We took him to the hospital after primary health failed us. CXR was clear, ECG was sinus R and T wave was bigger than average. 99% O2 sats, pulse was elevated for him (91BPM) & HTN 168/134 however this drops when he sits down for a bit. note that he is normally a fit man, his job was warehousing.
He is irritable, tired, forgetful, phlegmy and 5/10 pain on inhale.
We think he has OSA. The test is expensive and I know the signs are pointing to it. He is wanting a more natural way than an expensive CPAP machine if he can avoid it.
Hi Dr Sharma,
2 years before I has a heart attack that caused some damage to my heart muscle. As per the echo results my heart is working around 30%. I am taking my medications regularly.
Recently I am having sleepless nights. Hardly I could sleep 3 hours consecutively and complete my sleep in 3 – 4 intervals.
Today when I read following para from your website I felt that I carry some of the symptoms mentioned here like depression in the night time.
“Obstructive sleep apnea may lead to various complications like sleepiness during the daytime, weakness/fatigue, many mental symptoms (like irritability, depression, mood changes), hypertension, arrhythmias, cardiac complaints, stroke, type 2 diabetes and more.”
Kindly reply if you can treat me.
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Dear Dr. Sharma,
I have been hospital tested and diagnosed with OSA, stopping breathing 100 times in one night.
They told me my heart BRIEFLY stopped 8 times.
I have VERY VIVID DREAMS in color, Sometimes they are nightmares.
Which Homeopathic remedies do you suggest?
( I have used homeopathy for other problems and know it works . Thank you VERY MUCH !!!!!!!!
Hi Doctor saab. In Sleep Apnea moderate symptoms is it necessary for me to go for CPAP or Inspire machine treatment.
I am having 90% symptoms of Sleep Apnea. Doctor saab pls suggest me along with CPAP & Inspire machine treatment should I have to go for Homeopathy treatment or without these all machines I can go for this treatment in Homeopathy.
Hi,
My husband, 33 year old, suffering from OSA with AHI index 43 from last one year after he got Covid. He is little overweight but not obese. He gets frequent breathing pauses and sweating at night. He is on CPAP treatment from past 9 months but there is no improvement in his condition.
Could you please suggest if homeopathy can cure it.
With regards
Hi
i am debarpan, 30 years old, suffering OSA for last one and half year. Getting freequent sleep disorder, due to breathing stoppage for few seconds. I am not in range of obesity. Please advice.
With regards
DR .sb .
Gooday ,
i want to discuss about sleep apnea , i am suffering from last two year , so many medicine has been taken . but no relief . my wait also going to increase. please advise any medicine for sleep apnea & wait control.
i am very thank full to you .
i am awaiting for good response.
best regard ,
I am 68 years old and have sleep apnea and benign enlarged prostate. At night I snore loudly and my wife notices breathing difficulty during sleep. Sometimes I sweat during sleep at night.
Due to the prostate condition, the urgency to urinate often leads to some leaking,
I am not overweight but obese because of my large waist size, my energy is low, I prefer to lie down in bed reading books instead of going for physical work. Physically I am not a strong person. Sometimes I am depressed but I am a strong-willed person.
Please tell me if homeopathy can cure me.
Hi.dr sahib i am in Pakistan. Mujhe sleep apnea he.waight 104kg he 2 saal se.bhut preshan hon neend pori nahi hoti her waqt sota rehta hon.please koi achi treatment bataen.cpap bhi lagaya he per us se bhi araam nahi milta.
What potency do you recommend.
Hi
I am suffering from obstructive sleep apnea with AHI index 26 which came after sleep study for whole night. I am 33 year old and I am having nowadays having morning headache and feel tired and daytime sleepiness.
I am located in Bangalore. Could you please help me.
Dear Dr. Sharma
After having gone through your article, i am sure that i suffer from OSA with heavy snoring!! I have never ever tried homeopathy thus i am not really sure whether or not i would respond to Homeo treatment. Nevertheless i would like to try it out with an open mind, so can you please recommend a Homeo practitioner in Secunderabad, Telenaga.
Thanks