EFFECTIVENESS OF INDICATED HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICINE IN CASES OF INTERNAL HEMORRHOIDS -A CASE SERIES

Hemorrhoidal disease is one of the most common anorectal conditions encountered in daily practice by general practitioner, general surgeon and gastrointestinal surgeons. Homoeopathy ranks the most popular among the traditional, complementary or alternative medicines. homoeopathic literature shows anecdotal data on the usefulness of homoeopathic medicine in haemorrhoids although remarkable cure of Haemorrhoids with homoeopathic medicines in casual clinical experiences has been noted. Objective: The main objective of this research work was to study the effect of homeopathic medicines in reducing severity of symptoms in cases of internal Haemorrhoids. The second objective was to find out the most common homoeopathic medicines in cases of internal Haemorrhoids. Method: The study was based on case series study. After identification of participants we have done full case study of the patient and homoeopathic indicated medicine was prescribed to all patient. Result: Out of 30 cases in our sample size 1 recovered, 23 improving and 6 not improved with indicated homeopathic medicine. Conclusion: A study was conducted on 30 patients on the topic of internal haemorrhoids. Patients was collected from M(N)HMC OPD. We have done full case taking of the patients and homoeopathic indicated medicine was prescribed. We have symptom severity scale in our research on the basis of which we have done scoring of the patient and we have reached to the conclusion that 1 patient was recovered, 23 patients were improving and 6 not improv out of 45 patients and our null hypothesis was rejected.