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        <journal-title>Materia Novum: The Journal of Homoeopathy</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">Materia Novum</abbrev-journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="epub">2583-4398</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Materia Novum: The Journal of Homoeopathy</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">MNH410001</article-id>
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        <article-title>A case of alopecia areata</article-title>
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          <name>
            <surname>Achaliya</surname>
            <given-names>Piyush</given-names>
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      <pub-date pub-type="epub" iso-8601-date="2026-04-07">
        <month>04</month>
        <day>07</day>
        <year>2026</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>1</volume>
      <issue>4</issue>
      <elocation-id>1</elocation-id>
      <abstract>
        <p>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.</p>
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