To Study the Application Constitutional Prescription through Clinical Cases of Menopausal Syndrome

Sangeeta Shrivastava; Anilkumar Shrivastava

Sangeeta Shrivastava RKDF Homoeopathic Medical College Hospital and Research Centre, Bhopal, India-462026
Anilkumar Shrivastava RKDF Homoeopathic Medical College Hospital and Research Centre, Bhopal, India-462026

Abstract

Menopause is the stage in women’s life her ovaries permanently stop producing ova and estrogen leading to the outburst of transitional symptoms. The belief is that this “change of life” is largely filled with negative experience, which is attributed to the social and personal circumstance and not the endocrine events of menopause. The present study was taken up to fulfill the following objectives.

To study the clinical presentation of menopausal complaints.
To assess the homoeopathic management in menopausal complaints.
To understand the problem of menopausal group (understudy) in the social, economic and psychosomatic planes.

Methods:

In this randomized study, thirty diagnosed cases of menopause were selected on the basis of fixed inclusion and exclusion criteria. Case taking was performed according to the case format, with special emphasis on the past history, family history and mental state evaluation. Symptoms analysis and repertorisation was done as per the adaptability of the philosophy. Follow up criteria and parameters for evaluating the results of the study were formulated during this work. The prescription was based on totality of the symptoms, reportorial totality and analysis. All the cases were reviewed fortnightly during the first two months and once a month during the remaining period of the study (This is not the strict order and few had to be called in as per the requirement for the case and progress was recorded).

The following parameters were fixed for the assessments of the cases:

a) Recovered: Feeling of mental, physical and social well-being and no recurrence of these symptoms observed for a period of six to ten months after the treatment.
b) Improved: Feeling of mental, physical and social well-being significantly.
c) Not improved: No response.

Results:

In the present study of 30 cases, it was observed that 19 cases accounting to 63.33% of total recovered, 08 cases (26.66%) improved, 03 cases (10.00%) showed no improvement.