To explore the utility of homoeopathic medicine Lycopodium clavatum in urinary calculi

Abstract

Central Council for Research in Homoeopathy conducted a multicentric, observational study on Urolithiasis from 2005-2010. Results of this study showed the utility of Lycopodium clavatum in dissolution of urinary calculi. It is known that this medicine is efficacious for urinary calculi, but systematic and research data is not available for profession. Lycopodium clavatum had been in use for different purposes since may centuries in one or other form. This article is an effort to provide in-depth information of potentised Lycopodium clavatum in reference to the urinary calculi. The baseline symptoms score of urolithiasis was assessed before and after the treatment by using paired ‘t’ test in SPSS (Ver.16). A non parametric test of ‘Wilcoxon rank sum’ was used to analyze the changes in urinary symptoms before and after the treatment. Forty one (45.6%) patients showed marked improvement, 6 (6.7%) patients showed moderate improvement, 31 (34.4%) patients showed mild improvement, in 11 (12.2%) patients there was no significant improvement and 1 (1.1%) patient did not improve.