Clinical evaluation of Trombidium in amoebic dysentery
By Arun Bhasme - Apr 24, 2012
Amoebic dysentery is a common intestinal infection in the Indian context. While allopathic treatment is quite effective at controlling it in the acute stages, it is difficult to completely eradicate the organism from the intestine as it burrows deep inside, making it difficult for allopathic drugs to reach. In a first of its kind study, we find that the homoeopathic drug Trombidium is quite effective in treating the infection in the acute phase. This opens doors to further possibilities of experimenting with the efficacy of the drug in chronic amoebic colitis, especially since homoeopathic medication acts through other modalities than the conventional allopathic medication. Given the positive results of the study being presented here, we hope that further research will be undertaken along these lines in chronic conditions where there are very few options in modern medicine. What makes this study interesting though, is that stringent criteria consistent with the scientific temper of the times have been used in assessing the efficacy. This assuages the common charge levied against homoeopathic medicine by the allopaths that it is merely faith healing with little basis in scientific medicine!
Cameo cases
By D.E. Mistry - Jan 15, 2011
Many times during the course of homoeopathic treatment for a patient’s main complaint, an isolated but quite disturbing localised complaint crops up. Such a complaint is not an old one returning, but very often a new incident that is bothering the patient, far more than the ones for which he is undergoing treatment. Such a symptom disturbance very often leads to a rare or a small remedy, by the giving of which the complaint goes away and then one can come back to treat the constitution. We have given sac lac which may suffice– but in our experience if the complaint is bothersome and distressing, and more so when the patient demands that the new complaint be treated first and relieved, it is unethical just to sit quiet and let the patient suffer and hope that the vital force in due time will remedy the situation. Such type of cases we term ‘cameo’ cases. The Oxford Dictionary defines cameo as “A small but well acted part in a film or a full play”. Each of our cameos given below has a story to tell which we hope our readers will enjoy.