Abstract
Hydatid disease is a parasitic infestation in humans caused by Echinococcus granulosus. Here, it develops in liver, lung, brain or other organs but liver is the most commonly
affected organ. Intensity of morbidity depends upon location, expansion and activity
of cyst. In modern medicine, surgery is still the treatment of choice but the chance
of relapse and other complications is always there. Homoeopathy provides a better
response in such conditions. One such case report is presented below. A young female
patient attended outdoor patient department chiefly for complaints of jaundice, vomiting
and right hypochondriac pain for the last 1 month and her diagnosis was hydatid cyst
in right lobe of liver sized 11 × 15mm (by ultrasonography). She was successfully
treated with the single and individualised homoeopathic medicine Crotalus horridus in 50 millesimal potencies in respect of both symptomatically and pathologically
as evident by ultrasonography reports. Possible causal attribution of changes was
explicitly depicted by Modified Naranjo Criteria. It shows positive role of homoeopathic
treatment in regression of hydatid cyst in a young female.
Keywords
hydatid cyst -
Echinococcus granulosus
- homoeopathy -
Crotalus horridus
- Modified Naranjo criteria
