A Case of 25 year old Chronic Eczema cured by Homoeopathy
By Dr. Pawan S. Chandak
A Patient aged 55/M suffering Dry Eczema since 25 years has taken much Allpathic treatment from Skin Specialist, ayurvedic Treatment. He has applied much steroidal ointment. But no any treatment has given satisfactory results. Then he has consulted me on 20/02/2008 with:
- eczematous eruption on fingers,
- dryness of skin in winter,
- itching < night.
- All complaints worse < winter
- > hot water amelioration.
Past History
- H/o of recurrent cold & Coryza.
- H/o Cataract in January 2008.
Family History:
NAD
Personal History:
- Appetite: Normal
- Thirst: Normal 1 hourly.
- Desires: sweets
- Bowel: Regular
- Urine: Normal
- Sweat: worse in summer only.
- Sleep: Normal
Addiction: NAD
Mentals:
– Fastidious. Wants each & every thing in neat & proper manner.
– Hurried in work
– Idealistic
Thermal Relationship: Chilly
Bath: Hot water, seasonal
Fanning: only in summer
Covering: required
Examination:
BP: 120/80 mmhg
Evaluation of the Case:
First Prescription:
20/02/2008
Rx
Ars Alb 0/1
Placebo for 7 days
1 pill dissolved in 30 ml mineral water & given 10 downward strokes & advised the patient to drop it in one ounce of water & take 1 teaspoonful of it.
28/02/2008
Itching decreased. Eruption on left side of foot reappearing.
Rx
Arsenic Album 0/3
Placebo for 1 week
06/03/2008
Improving
Rx
Ars Alb 0/6
Placebo for 1 week
13/03/2008
Sticky discharge oozing from eruption.
Rx
Ars Alb 0/9
Placebo for 1 week
20/03/2008
Sticky discharge decreased.
Rx
Ars Alb 0/12
27/03/2008
Small papule on finger.
Redness of conjunctiva < exposed to Sun
Rx
Ars Alb 0/12
From Next day
Natrum Mur 0/1 bid X 1 week
03/04/2008
Improvement in skin eruption & Conjunctivitis problem.
Rx
Ars Alb 0/15
Placebo for 1 week
1904/2008
Improvement
Conjunctivitis < sunheat slight
Rx
Ars Alb 0/18
Placebo for 1 week
29/04/2008
Rx
Ars Alb 0/21
Placebo
10/05/2008.
Rx
Ars Alb 0/24
Placebo for 1 week
26/05/2008
Improvement
Rx
Ars Alb 0/25
03/06/2008
Improvement
Rx
Ars Alb 0/26
09/06/2008
Improvement
Rx
Ars Alb 0/27
18/06/2008
Improvement complete
Rx
Ars Alb 0/28
25/06/2008
Improvement complete
Rx
Ars Alb 0/29
03/07/2008
Complete Improvement. Cured completely.
Rx
Ars Alb 0/30
admin
Vera Resnick IHM DHom Med (Lic)
Case management is good.you need a series of potencies which is almost impossible for a practitioner.I do not know why he is jumping to different potencies.It makes homeopathy difficult.I do not think Hahnemann and his immediate followers did the same
Regards.
Sajjad.
tetters, dry 1548
tetters, itching 1535
aggr winter 2719
amel, washing 2927
aggr cold, becoming 2464
Arsenicum album is the first remedy in the repertorization. The mind sxs would only apply if they came on with the eczema.
From Organon, 6th edition, aphorism 248:
“Thus in chronic diseases, every correctly chosen homoeopathic medicine, even those whose action is of long duration, may be repeated daily for months with ever increasing success. If the solution is used up (in seven to fifteen days) it is necessary to add to the next solution of the same medicine if still indicated one or (though rarely) several pellets of a higher potency with which we continue so long as the patient experiences continued improvement without encountering one or another complaint that he never had before in his life.”
This can be achieved in many different ways, including the method used in this case. He probably didn’t want to aggravate the eczema so he only repeated the medicine once a week. Hahnemann and Boenninghausen used placebo often, to put the patient at ease, that something was being done every day. People don’t understand that one infrequent dose can act. Perhaps his method here, jumping up in more sharply in potency often, is why the case moved along so quickly to cure?
It would have been nice to see the sxs for the nat mur prescription, but the conjunctivitus must have called for the change in the medicine.
I don’t think you can argue with the results of the case! Did the cure last?