A Case Study on Haemorrhoid

Dr. Niranjan Mohanty, Dr. Priyanka Sahu, Dr. Santosh Kumar Jena, Dr. Umakanta Prusty

Abstract: Haemorrhoid, otherwise known as piles, is the dilatation of veins of the anal canal. The global prevalence of haemorrhoid is 4.4% in the general population and 50% of population would have the disease at any point of time by reaching the age 50 years. A male patient of 46 years old was suffering from haemorrhoid for last 5 years resorted to all systems of treatment but failed, was finally treated by constitutional treatment and was cured for last 5 years. The case taking was done in a standardized format and all symptoms were passed through standard procedures of Homoeopathy to arrive at totality of symptoms such as analysis of symptoms, conceptual image, analysis of the case/ synthesis, reportorial totality/ evaluated totality, miasmatic diagnosis, repertorisation. The medicine was prescribed in 50 millesimal scale in frequent repetition scheduled. Centesimal potency was prescribed in infrequent repetitions whenever required. Change of potency and medicine prescriptions were done as per the guidelines of Homoeopathy and cure was achieved to a so called surgical disease like Haemorrhoid.

Keywords: Haemorrhoid, PNR Bleed classification, Quality of life, Conceptual image, Analysis of the case, Evaluated totality, Miasmatic diagnosis