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Role of Homoeopathy in Iron Deficiency Anemia

Prof Dr Poonam Singh, Dr Pranesh Kumar Singh

Iron deficiency anemia occurs when a lack of iron prevents your body from making enough hemoglobin—the protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen. Common causes include chronic bleeding (e.g., heavy periods), poor dietary iron intake, or malabsorption issues like celiac disease. Iron from the food you eat is absorbed into the body by the cells that line the gastrointestinal tract; the body only absorbs a small fraction of the iron you ingest. The iron is then released into the blood stream, where a protein called transferrin attaches to it and delivers the iron to the liver. Iron is stored in the liver as ferritin and released as needed to make new red blood cells in the bone marrow. When red blood cells are no longer able to function (after about 120 days in circulation), they are re-absorbed by the spleen. Iron from these old cells can also be recycled by the body. Homoeopathy medicine acts as an absorption enhancer (improving the body's intrinsic ability to assimilate iron from food) and a constitutional balancer to address the root cause of systemic imbalance. Keywords: IDA, Hb, Haemorhage, Homoeopathy, Iron defficiency Anaemia

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