Applicability of homœopathic Caulophyllum thalictroides during labour

Abstract

A clinical study of the effect of Caulophyllum 7c in normal labour is reported. Caulophyllum was given to 22 women in their first pregnancies who had gone into labour spontaneously. 17 of them had normal spontaneous deliveries.

Caulophyllum was tolerated. Compared to 34 labours retrospectively selected by the same criteria, the duration of labour in Caulophyllum-treated women was reduced by about 90 minutes.

Key Words

Caulophyllum - Homœopathy - Labour - Duration

Thesis of Medicine, University of Milan, 1991

^* Physician, IInd Obstetrics-Gynaecology Clinic, University of Milan, Italy

^† Homœopathic physician responsible for homœopathic research, Boiron, Italy

^‡ Gynaecologist obstetrician, Ist Obstetrics-Gynaecology Clinic, University of Milan, Italy