Evaluation of Ten Homoeopathic Medicines In The Clinical Management of Intermittent Fever

Abstract

The intermittent fever has played an important role in the discovery and evolution of homoeopathic system of medicine. lt is an important clinical presentation of a multitude of bacterial and parasitic infections such as Malaria, Dengue, Typhus Enteric fevers, HIV disease etc. The Central Council for Research in Homoeopathy (CCRH) had undertaken a clinical study lo evaluate efficacy of Homoeopathic medicine in the management of Malaria at Port Blair and Jaipur during the years 1980-89. During the course of the study nine (09) homoeopathic medicines i.e. Arsenicum album, China arsenicosum. Chininum sulphuricum, Cinchona officinalis, Caesalpaenia bonducella, Gentiana chirata, lpecacuanha, Natrum muriaticum and Nyctanthes arbortristis were found therapeutically effective in the management oi Malaria. The medicines were selected for an open trial to further verify and confirm their role in the clinical management of intermittent fever, irrespective of etiology. Amoora rohitaka, an indigenous drug, whose pathogenesis was being clinically verified separately and in a different setting, was also included in the study. 144 cases who presented intermittent fever were studied during the period from 1989-90 to 1991-92 at Port Blair. The medicines were prescribed on the basis of clinically verified pathogenesis as deduced from the earlier study conducted during the years 1980-89 to individual patient(s) who presented with corresponding signs and symptoms. Duration of complaints varied from 1 day to 1 year. The medicines were presented in potencies varying from 6-200 CH depending on the age of the individual subject and also duration of complaints. The treatment varied from 1 day to 2 months in different individuals. The medicines gave a varying success role of 75-100 percent. The signs and symptoms which have been clinically verified during the course of study have been tabulated and discussed.