What is Thyroid?

The thyroid gland is a small organ that’s located in the front of the neck, wrapped around the windpipe (trachea). It’s shaped like a butterfly, smaller in the middle with two wide wings that extend around the side of your throat. Thyroid gland makes hormones that help control many vital functions of your body.

What is Thyroid Disease?

Your thyroid creates and produces hormones that play a role in many different systems throughout your body. When your thyroid makes either too much or too little of these important hormones, it’s called a thyroid disease. There are several different types of thyroid disease, including hyperthyroidism, hypothyroidism, thyroiditis and Hashimoto’s thyroiditis.

Thyroid gland releasing and controlling hormone that control metabolism of your whole body. Metabolism is a process where the food you take into your body is transformed into energy.
The thyroid controls your metabolism with a few specific hormones — T4 (thyroxine, contains four iodide atoms) and T3 (triiodothyronine, contains three iodide atoms). These two hormones are created by the thyroid and they tell the body’s cells how much energy to use. When your thyroid works properly, it will maintain the right amount of hormones to keep your metabolism working at the right rate. As the hormones are used, the thyroid creates replacements.

This is all supervised by something called the pituitary gland. Located in the center of the skull, below your brain, the pituitary gland monitors and controls the amount of thyroid hormones in your bloodstream. When the pituitary gland senses a lack of thyroid hormones or a high level of hormones in your body, it will adjust the amounts with its own hormone. This hormone is called thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH). The TSH will be sent to the thyroid and it will tell the thyroid what needs to be done to get the body back to normal.

What causes thyroid disease?

Conditions that can cause hypothyroidism include:

1] Thyroiditis:

This condition is an inflammation (swelling) of the thyroid gland. Thyroiditis can lower the amount of hormones your thyroid produces.

2] Hashimoto’s thyroiditis:

A painless disease, Hashimoto’s thyroiditis is an autoimmune condition where the body’s cells attack and damage the thyroid. This is an inherited condition.

3] Postpartum thyroiditis:

This condition occurs in 5% to 9% of women after childbirth. It’s usually a temporary condition.

4] Iodine deficiency:

Iodine is used by the thyroid to produce hormones.

5] A non-functioning thyroid gland:

Sometimes, the thyroid gland doesn’t work correctly from birth. This affects about 1 in 4,000 newborns. If left untreated, the child could have both physical and mental issues in the future. All newborns are given a screening blood test in the hospital to check their thyroid function.

Conditions that can cause hyperthyroidism include:

1] Graves’ disease:

In this condition the entire thyroid gland might be overactive and produce too much hormone. This problem is also called diffuse toxic goiter (enlarged thyroid gland).

2] Nodules:

Hyperthyroidism can be caused by nodules that are overactive within the thyroid. A single nodules is called a toxic multi-nodular goiter.

3] Thyroiditis:

This disorder can be either painful or not felt at all. In thyroiditis, the thyroid releases hormones that were stored there. This can last for a few weeks or months.

4] Excessive iodine:

When you have too much iodine (the mineral that is used to make thyroid hormones) in your body, the thyroid makes more thyroid hormones than it needs. Excessive iodine can be found in some medications (amiodarone, a heart medication) and cough syrups.

What common symptoms can happen with thyroid disease?

There are a variety of symptoms you could experience if you have a thyroid disease.

Symptoms of an overactive thyroid (hyperthyroidism) can include:

 

• Experiencing anxiety, irritability and nervousness.
• Having trouble sleeping.
• Losing weight.
• Having an enlarged thyroid gland or a goiter.
• Having muscle weakness and tremors.
• Experiencing irregular menstrual periods or having your menstrual cycle stop.
• Feeling sensitive to heat.
• Having vision problems or eye irritation.

Symptoms of an underactive thyroid (hypothyroidism) can include:

• Feeling tired (fatigue).
• Gaining weight.
• Experiencing forgetfulness.
• Having frequent and heavy menstrual periods.
• Having dry and coarse hair.
• Having a hoarse voice.
• Experiencing an intolerance to cold temperatures.

How thyroid disease diagnosed?

The diagnosis of thyroid disease include below test =
1) Blood tests FT3, FT4, uTSH
2) Imaging tests.- USG-Thyroid Gland 
3) Physical exams

Homeopathic Role in Thyroid Diseases?

If you really want to cure thyroid disorders, then Homeopathy is the best option you can come across. But sadly, most people are still not aware of its effectiveness.
Homeopathic treatment acts at the level of immunity and restores the deviated function of your body. Homeopathy treatment also helps in cases of Auto-Immune causes leading to Thyroid Disorders.
It helps in controlling your thyroid symptoms without any unwanted aggravation or side effects.

How Homeopathy Treat Thyroid Diseases Permanently?

Homeopathic medicines stimulate the thyroid gland and improve thyroid function as well as offers you relief in the signs and symptoms. Once patients respond to homeopathic treatment, they may not need thyroid supplements for lifelong.
Homeopathy considers a disease to be the result from emotional distress and frustration, which blocks the life force energy into various different organs or glands. Homeopathy considers thyroid problem as one such autoimmune glandular dysfunction. Homeopathy cure the person's individual constitution. Homeopathic remedies work by stimulating the body's own healing power. Homeopathic remedies stimulate the body to reactivate the hormone secretions, replenish and restore the thyroid tissue through the pituitary and other glands as a whole allowing the body to heal itself. Thus, homeopathic remedies will help boost your energy, improve circulation, and soothe metabolism by balancing “hyper” or “hypo” thyroid functions. homeopathy heals by finding and curing the roots of the disease. It has a cleansing effect and stimulates thyroid activity by implementing a general regulating influence on the thyroid.