Can Ayurveda help cure PCOS permanently?

Written by- Vaidya Vibhuti Rao

​Many women with PCOS ask this question to Ayurvedic doctors when they are diagnosed with PCOS. Is it curable in Ayurveda? There is no cure according to conventional medicines, however, symptomatic treatments are available. Women with PCOS are given either anti-diabetic medicines or birth control pills or other hormonal tablets to manage the symptoms of PCOS. And if they want to conceive, they are advised to go for fertility treatments which include IVF. However, the side-effects, dependency on humoral pills and no permanent cure leave women frustrated. They then turn towards other systems of medicines such as Ayurveda. Dr. Vibhuti answers if Ayurveda can help you with your medical diagnosis of PCOS. 

Ayurveda is the oldest system of medicines which can help you prevent diseases, cure them and even promote your health. Preventing of diseases is the strongest pillar of Ayurveda practice. To my knowledge, there is no other medical science in this world, which has given such a detail explanation of prevention of diseases with food, herbs and lifestyle.  Ayurveda helps give a very personalized sense of understanding the disease and work on it to remove it from its roots. Ayurveda has documented many such conditions. So, coming back to the question, can Ayurveda help cure PCOS permanently?  Well, before I answer this, let me give you an overview of Ayurvedic ways of understanding PCOS and the treatments.
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Ayurveda helps you understand your disease deeply
There is no condition called as PCOS in Ayurveda. It is a diagnosis made by the conventional medicines. Ayurveda has many other diseases which has symptoms as told in PCOS. Ayurveda talks in detail about female related problems, their treatment and how a woman can restore her fertility and prevent all menstrual disorders. Fertility is not required only to have babies but it is a very “core concept” of being a woman. It is more to do with a healthy life for a female. A woman’s body goes through a lot of changes since her childhood and the very first change appears when she starts having her periods. In medical terms it is called as ‘menarche’ and Ayurveda calls it – ‘Rajo darshanam’. Ayurveda suggests that from this time onwards, a girl needs extra care and support to look after her body, to be free from all kinds of menstrual disturbances.
A regular menstrual cycle is an indicator of women’s health in Ayurveda. Ayurvedic medicines safe and effective in corrective various menstrual-related problems and used extensively worldwide. The menstrual disturbance is the basic symptoms of any underlying pathology. For example, when there is an imbalance between ‘Doshas’ the body shows sign and symptoms of that abnormal Doshas. Doshas are stated as bio-energies in the body which initiate, sustain and complete all the functions in the body, they are three – Vata, Pitta and Kapha, for easy understanding we can see them as – Vata – relates to the wind and causes movements, Pitta related to fire and cause metabolic activities and Kapha relates to the earth and causes formation. Majority of the female related problems are due to imbalance in Vata dosha which further vitiates Pitta and Kapha dosha.

Vata is considered as a special one and so, in the female body, all the fertility-related functions are governed by Vata itself examples – the expulsion of blood during periods. It is more to do with ‘Apana Vata’ – a subtype of Vata dosha which is responsible for downwards movements. According to Ayurveda, health is a balance status of Doshas, in sort ‘being in Balance’ is Health – complete health. This imbalance can thoroughly diagnose by a qualified Ayurvedic doctor. So, pay a visit to one of the best. However, the following information can be a good guide for you to understand Ayurvedic management of PCOS.

Ayurveda can help you cure PCOS permanently, provided you are aware to follow Ayurvedic lifestyle. Taking some medicines for a few months, and lading a junky lifestyle, and then wishing for not to have PCOS again. It is not sensible and I hope you agree with me too. To remain healthy, one needs to put efforts but these efforts should be so easy that you should not feel any burden of doing so. For example, adopting 30-40 minutes of Yoga 5 days week, having one detox day in a month, and visiting your Ayurvedic doctor if you see any imbalance in your body. We are humans and prone to diseases if we do not look after ourselves.

In my clinical practice of treating PCOS for 10 years now, I can say that yes, Ayurveda can permanently cure PCOS. I have seen young girls in their 18-19 of age with PCOS and after coming to Ayurveda they have been leading a very healthy life in their early 30’s without pills. I remember one of my recent patients getting permanent cure from PCOS, however, it took almost two years for her to see ‘no cyst’ in her scan – a normal USG. The only thing she could say was – ‘it was beautiful, how symptoms by symptoms got relieved one by one’. She did not want to have a baby at that time but wanted to have ‘No-PCOS’.  Later, after 6 months, I heard from her that she was expecting. It all comes down to a good guidance from an Ayurvedic doctor, excellent Ayurvedic herbs, and healthy habits. You will be amazed to see how it works. It is a combined effort of the patient and the Ayurveda practitioner. 

Namaskara,
Vaidya Vibhuti Rao