ROLE OF

HOMOEOPATHY IN OBSTETRICS

Shyama Kanungo, MD,FICOG,FICMCH

Professor O&G,
S.C.B.Medical College
WHY NOT

“INTEGRATIVE” ?
WORLD MOVES TOWARDS
GLOBALISATION
 INTEGRAL
 TOTAL
 COMPLETE
 WHOLE
DIMENSIONS TO HEALTH & HEALING

MENTAL

SPIRITUAL

PHYSICAL EMOTIONAL
INTEGRATION OF SYSTEMS
IS
THE NEED OF THE HOUR
INTEGRATE BOTH SYSTEMS & MONITOR BY MODERN
INVESTIGATIVE TECHNOLOGY
ACCESS TO INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE NOW A SOUGHT AFTER
MODALITY BY THE HEALTH CARE BENEFICIARY
OBJECTIVES OF INTEGRATION

To offer ‘THE WHOLE, THE TOTAL,

THE INTEGRATED, THE HARMONIOUS
BEST’ of the systems concerned
Ensure safety
Provide benefits & evidence of harmless
therapy
Avoid delays in non-responding situations;
Back up of emergency management by Modern
Medicine ready at hand
WHEN TO ADVOCATE
HOMOEOPATHY?
 PRE-CONCEPTIONAL
 ANTE-NATAL
 INTRA-NATAL
 POST-NATAL
PRE-CONCEPTIONAL
 FERTILITY CHALLENGES ESP.
UNEXPLAINED/ OTHER
 H/O REPEATED PREGNANCY LOSS
 H/O CONGENITAL ANOMALIES
 PRE-EXISTING ANEMIA
 H/O REPEATED FGR BABIES
 H/OREPEATED PTL
She came because of homoeopathic
treatment to her mom !
SPECIFIC ANTENATAL SITUATIONS
FIRST TRIMESTER
Exclusive use of
Homoeopathy:
 1. Mild & Moderate
nausea & vomiting
 2.Anxiety ,fear, emotional
lability, pica
 3. Constipation
 4. Hemorrhoids (piles)
 5. Heart burn &
indigestion
Use along with modern
medicine:
 1. Hyper emesis
gravidarum
 2.Gross psychosis
 3. Severe constipation
with acute abdomen
 4. Severe non-
responding bleeding piles
 5.Severe discomfort with
hematemesis
SPECIFIC ANTENATAL SITUATIONS
FIRST TRIMESTER contd…
EXCLUSIVE USE OF ALONG WITH MODERN
HOMOEOPATHY MEDCINE

 7. Anemia  7. Severe anemia with

 8. Mild fever with or without heart failure
coryza  8. High fever
 9. Preventive for  9. Malaria
malaria  10. Bleeding per
vaginum
SPECIFIC SITUATIONS IN 2ND & 3RD TRIMESTERS
HOMOEOPATHY ALONE:
 1. Worrisome skin changes,
commedones
 2. Unexplained excessive
weight gain
 3. Epulis gum & tooth
problems
 4. Back ache, mild head
ache
 5. Pain abdomen false
labour; thrtnd. PTL
ALONG WITH MODERN MEDICINE:
 1. Severe itching with altered
LFT,HELLP
 2. Wt. gain associated with
HTN, Albuminuria
 3.Severe head ache with
blurred vision/loss of vision/
convulsions/unconsciousne
ss
 4.Established PTL/Labour
 5. decreased fetal
movements,pPROM/PROM
 6. Bleeding per vaginum
2nd & 3rd TRIMESTERS CONTINUED

 6. Repeated UTI  6.Pyelitis/pyelonephritis

 7. Intractable cough (TB  7. Cough due to
excluded) Pulmonary tuberculosis
 8. Anemia
 8.Severe anemia
 9. malaria & high
 9. Breech after 37
fever
weeks without cpd or
 10. Breast abscess &
risk factors
Mastitis
 10. Preventive for
malaria
Specific situations in low risk labours
Homoeopathy alone: Along with modern medicine:

1. Delays in latent phase 1. Delays in active and

second stage
2. Uterine inertia - hypo tonic
2. Hypertonic, inco-ordinate
3. Anticipation of PPH uterine action
Specific life threatening conditions
Along with modern obstetric management
1. Suspicion of rupture/impending rupture
2. APH, PPH not responding to AMTSL
3. Morbidly adherent placenta
4. Inversion of uterus
5. Chorio-amnionitis
Puerperium

Homoeopathy as first Along with modern

line: medicine:
 Poor Lactation or  Retracted nipples

failure  Breast abscess

 Breast engorgement  Retention of urine

despite homoeopathic
 Poor and painful
management
voiding of urine  Frank psychosis
 Depression  Severe anemia
 Anemia requiring BT
Puerperium contd…
Homoeopathy as first line: Along with modern
 Fatigue, exhaustion
medicine:
 Pain in the perineal
 High fever, purulent
sutures and injuries
 Swelling of feet lochia, wounds, rpoc
 Sub involution due to in cavity
mechanical factors  Painful white leg,
unrelated to sepsis
 Contraception in addition  DVT
to LAM
 MY OBSERVATIONS ON
EFFECTIVENESS OF HOMOEOPATHY
IN OBSTETRICS:
 Recalcitrant anemia
 Nausea & vomiting
 Head ache, back ache in pregnancy
 Repeated cough & cold
 Version of breech to vertex after 37 weeks
 Clearing out of herpes zoster at term
pregnancy
 Reduction of varicose veins
Observations in some non-
obstetric areas
 Proximal tubal block
 Other infertility related problems
 Interstitial cystitis
 Myomas
Maternal Child Health
WHO ALGORITHM
SAFE DELIVERY BY INTEGRATION OF
HOMOEOPATHY & ALLOPATHY
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