Around 8% of ALL women have fibroids in their womb, with 12 to 25% having problems from fibroids such as heavy bleeding and pain. What are fibroids? These are non-cancerous uterine growths, that often appears during the childbearing age of a woman. These are also called as leiomyomas or myomas. These are fibrous masses that require female hormones estrogen and progesterone for its growth. However, fibroids can occur anywhere in the uterus but most of the fibroids develop from the muscle layer i.e. myometrium while cervical fibroids are rare. Depending on the location, it can be termed as:

• Serosal fibroids – develop on the outside of the uterus, and involve the serosal lining.
• Pedunculated fibroids – Fibroids developing on stalks.
• Intramural fibroids – develop within the muscle layer of uterus.
• Submucosal fibroids – involve the endometrial lining.

Risk factors: 1. Food stuffs like beef and red meat, ham, and alcohol are found to be associated with risk for uterine fibroids. Green vegetables, dairy products and fruit will decrease the risk. However, Soy will not affect fibroid growth.

2. women those who are approaching menopausal age are at more risk due to their long exposure to high levels of estrogen.
3. obesity

Symptoms: women with fibroid may or may not have any symptoms or some may have only very mild symptoms. Symptoms may include:

1. Heavy or prolonged bleeding or menses
2. Abnormal bleeding between periods
3. Pain in pelvis or lower abdomen due to pressure caused by fibroid
4. Painful intercourse
5. A firm fibroid mass often palpable by physician on examination
6. Frequent urination
7. Lower backache
8. If not treated , it can also cause iron deficiency anemia due to heavy bleeding.

It can be easily diagnosed with the help of ultrasonography.

Surgical removal of fibroids may sometimes however land up with complications and also there are chances of reoccurrences. However homeopathic medicines act as a surgeon’s knife for fibroids. Homeopathic medicines tends to balance the hormones, shrink the fibroids and reduce the heavy menstrual bleeding.homeopathic medicines are safe and easy to use and also can be taken during pregnancy without any complications or side-effects. Following are the few best selected homeopathic remedies which shows excellent results if symptoms agree.

• Aurum muriaticum natronatum– it helps in treating fibroids with congestion and induration of female genital organs.
• Calcarea carbonica– it is indicated when menses last too long and menses are profuse. It is suited to women who feel more cold and those who are obese and those who are easily tired by exertion.
• Calcarea fluorica– it helps in treating stony hard, large and multiple fibroids.
• Phosphorus– there is fibroids with heavy uterine bleeding causing anemia. It is indicated to tall and slender woman.
• Thalaspi is indicated for women suffering from fibroids when there is frequent and heavy bleeding. The most peculiar symptom is when next periods appear before the patient has recovered from the previous one.
• Trillium helps in treating patients with fibroids when there is bright red bleeding and bleeding is profuse. There is excessive bleeding causing fainting spells.
• Fraxinus helps in treating fibroids when there is bearing down pains due to large fibroids accompanied with menstrual flow.