Materia Novum: The Journal of Homoeopathy

Alopecia areata is common cause of non-cicatrical alopecia that occurs as a patchy, confluent or diffuse pattern. In allopathic way of treatment they use glucocorticoid, intralesional injection,and systemic cyclosporine for management and for surgical treatment they use hair transplantation. This treatment suppresses the disease not cure the patient and complaint again reappear after some time. Homoeopathy has mentioned medicines for alopecia areata. A case reported was a male of 25 years of age suffering from sign of alopecia areata on the right side of chin. The homoeopathic medicine phosphorus 200c was prescribed on basis of case. Alopecia areata was reduced considererably within 1 months and it was reduced completely in 3 months, no recurrence of alopecia areata was observed thereafter. Photographs during follow up visits provided documentary evidence about the effectiveness of homoeopathic phosphorus 200c in alopecia areata.

Surgery represents conventional medicine at its best and its worst. On the one hand, surgery demonstrates incredibly sophisticated informational and technical advancement, yet on the other hand, it often indicates the inability of physicians and patients to prevent this invasive treatment of last resort. Like other health professionals, homeopaths honor the special role that surgery and surgeons have in health care. Homoeopaths are not against surgery, because certain conditions are simply not treatable without it. At the same time, however, surgery is often performed unnecessarily. It is performed when other, safer measures can be effectively used. It is performed too early when the body can sometimes heal itself. And it is performed inappropriately, primarily because surgeons only know surgery and don't know what else to do.

Toothache is very common clinical condition seen in dental OPD in day to day practice. Treatment of toothache depends upon the cause and severity. Root canal therapy is one of the procedures used to treat the toothache. Use of local anesthesia during the procedure has several side effects. Local anesthetics are frequently administered in dentistry and thus can be expected to be a major source of drug-related complications in the dental office. Additionally, the dentist will more often be confronted with the treatment of risk patients; thus, the incidence of side effects can be expected to rise. Complications associated with the administration of the local anesthesia of all patients, 45.9% had at least one risk factor in their medical histories, with cardiovascular diseases and allergies being the most frequent. Additionally, doses of local anesthetics proved not to be strictly determined according to body weight, especially for patients weighing less than 50 kg.[1] To prevent these side effects of local anesthesia, homoeopathic medicines can be used to subside the pain during process of Root Canal Therapy (RCT). In this study, we tried Coffea cruda 30 a homoeopathic medicine in the cases of RCT to reduce pain.