HOMOEOPATHIC APPROACH IN THE MANAGEMENT OF PROTEIN ENERGY MALNUTRITION - A RANDOMISED CLINICAL TRIAL

Abstract

“The MIND is the principle of LIFE which, divides into nutrition, sensation, and faculty of thought, corresponding to the inner most important stages in the succession of vital phenomena.”

• The nutritional status of an individual reflects the balance between the supply and expenditure of nutrients. In most contexts, clinicians are concerned with the sequelae of deficient intakes to which the term “malnutrition” is usually applied. The term malnutrition is usually used in lay language for PEM.

Objectives

• To assess the mode of uncommon presentation of protein energy malnutrition in clinical practice.
• To analyze the miasmatic trait of dispositions prone for protein energy malnutrition.
• To assess cause & effect in relation to the study of a drug indicative in Protein energy malnutrition.

RESULTS: An analysis of the results according to the parameters fixed for the study conducted revealed that 19 of the 30 cases recovered, 7 cases improved and 4 did not improve.

CONCLUSION: A Homoeopathic remedy authentically chosen on the basis of Mental & physical generals and peculiar characteristic particulars can bring about the outstanding results irrespective of severity of symptoms, gross local pathological changes. In all the cases Constitutional remedies were indicated which yielded positive outcome in 19 cases. These outcomes satisfied the generalities of the subjects very well.