No Amputation: Homeopathy Saves the Case

Samarendra Prasad Mishra

doi:10.1055/s-0037-1598096

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Homœopathic Links 2017; 30(01): 048-051
DOI: 10.1055/s-0037-1598096

Materia Medica and Cases

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No Amputation: Homeopathy Saves the Case

An Evidence-Based Case of Septic Gangrene Cured with the Drug Gunpowder

Samarendra Prasad Mishra

¹Department of Materia Medica, Maharana Pratap Homœopathic Medical College, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India

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Abstract

This article discusses a case of septic gangrene of the foot in an elderly woman, whose prognosis was poor given that amputation of the leg below the knee had been advised. Full cure was effected by Dr. Samarendra Prasad Mishra, using the drugs Gunpowder and Pyrogen with topical dressings of Calendula-Q.

Keywords

Gunpowder - Pyrogen - Calendula - gangrene - sepsis

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