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Obstinate Chronic Venous Ulcer Treated With The Homoeopathic Medicine Silicea: A Case Report, Sumit Paliwal, Laijun Nahar
Obstinate Chronic Venous Ulcer Treated With The Homoeopathic Medicine Silicea: A Case Report, Sumit Paliwal, Laijun Nahar
Indian Journal of Research in Homoeopathy
Introduction: Vascular leg ulcers are highly prevalent conditions that have difficult management, a high sanitary cost and an impact on the patient’s quality of life. Individualised homoeopathic treatment could be a safe and affordable therapeutic option for venous ulcers. Case Summary: A 35-year-old male was treated with homoeopathic medication for an intractable case of chronic venous ulcer. Individualised homoeopathic medicine, Silicea, was prescribed after thorough case-taking, which led to improvement in subjective and objective symptoms. The Modified Naranjo Criteria score was 8 following the homoeopathic treatment, which shows positive causal attribution of the individualised homoeopathic medicine Silicea in …
Mucocele Of Lower Lip Treated With Constitutional Homoeopathic Medicine Silicea – A Case Report, Uma Maheswari M.S, Sisir P R, Gopukumar S T
Mucocele Of Lower Lip Treated With Constitutional Homoeopathic Medicine Silicea – A Case Report, Uma Maheswari M.S, Sisir P R, Gopukumar S T
Indian Journal of Research in Homoeopathy
Introduction: A mucocele is a mucus-containing benign cystic lesion of the salivary gland. Based on the histological features, they are classified into two types, mucous retention cysts and mucous extravasation cysts. They appear in the minor salivary glands due to mechanical damage to the gland or its duct. The case study presented here is a detailed analysis of a 6-year-old male child affected by mucocele of the lower lip and its homoeopathic treatment and significance. Case Summary: A 6-year-old child presented with complaint of a swelling over the mucosa of the lower lip. Initially, the swelling was small, …
Endometriotic Cyst And Fibrocystic Disease Of The Breast Treated With Individualised Homoeopathy – A Case Report, Rajachandrasekar Bhuvaneswari, Reshma Radhakrishnan
Endometriotic Cyst And Fibrocystic Disease Of The Breast Treated With Individualised Homoeopathy – A Case Report, Rajachandrasekar Bhuvaneswari, Reshma Radhakrishnan
Indian Journal of Research in Homoeopathy
Introduction: Endometriosis is one of the benign gynaecological disorders in childbearing women, characterised by the presence of functioning endometrial tissue outside the uterine mucosa. Fibrocystic disease of the breast is the most common and benign lesion among women of reproductive age group seeking medical advice for breast problems during a lifetime. It is characterised by hyperproliferation of connective tissue or fibrosis, which is followed by facultative epithelial proliferation in the breast tissues. Case Summary: A case of a left endometriotic ovarian cyst with multiple cystic lesions in the right breast in a 36-year-old patient successfully treated with individualised homoeopathic medicine …
Resolution Of Lacrimal Gland Tumour By Homoeopathic Medicines - A Case Report, Partha Pal
Resolution Of Lacrimal Gland Tumour By Homoeopathic Medicines - A Case Report, Partha Pal
Indian Journal of Research in Homoeopathy
Lacrimal glands are exclusive structures possessing both epithelial and lymphoid tissue and may produce a variable range of pathologies such as neoplastic, infective, infiltrative, inflammatory and structural. Treatment is either anti-inflammatory in the form of corticosteroids, radiotherapy or complete excision in the field of modern medicine. A female patient named IB, aged 35 years, came with bilateral firm swelling of the lacrimal gland. She started treatment under modern medicine doctors; however, when she was advised for biopsy, for histopathological examination, she preferred to go for Homoeopathy. The swelling was developing gradually for 2 months – painless, no fluctuation, no fixity …
Effect Of Individualised Homoeopathy In The Treatment Of Infertility, Suraia Parveen, Himadri Bhaumik
Effect Of Individualised Homoeopathy In The Treatment Of Infertility, Suraia Parveen, Himadri Bhaumik
Indian Journal of Research in Homoeopathy
A 37-year-old woman, being married for 6 years, presented to the homoeopathic outpatient department, after treatment of infertility by a gynaecologist for few years. She had a past history of emergency ovarian cystectomy for endometriosis 1 year after her marriage. Her subsequent infertility workup revealed hydrosalpinx with one-sided tubal block along with the evidence of poor ovarian reserve. Her husband's semen analysis was normal and was advised for donor-ovum in vitro fertilisation. At this point, she was treated with constitutional homoeopathic medicine following the miasmatic analysis with the holistic concept of Homoeopathy over 6 months. Treatment started with Silicea and …
Treatment Of Post-Burn Hypertrophic Scar With Homoeopathic Medicine, Bhopal Arya, Vaqar Siddiqui, Rupali Dixit
Treatment Of Post-Burn Hypertrophic Scar With Homoeopathic Medicine, Bhopal Arya, Vaqar Siddiqui, Rupali Dixit
Indian Journal of Research in Homoeopathy
Hypertrophic scar (HSc) is a dermal fibro proliferative disorder that occurs following trauma, inflammation, surgery, burns, and sometimes spontaneously. This is a case report of a 23 year old male with post-burn HSc after acid burn injury on his left jaw. The homoeopathic medicine Silicea was prescribed in 30 th potency on the basis of the totality of symptoms followed by repertorization; though only three doses of Silicea were prescribed at baseline during the course of treatment followed by placebo, there was a marked improvement in HSc as well as in associated complaints.