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Homœopathic Links 2017; 30(01): 048-051
DOI: 10.1055/s-0037-1598096
Materia Medica and Cases
Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Private Ltd.

No Amputation: Homeopathy Saves the Case

An Evidence-Based Case of Septic Gangrene Cured with the Drug Gunpowder
Samarendra Prasad Mishra
1   Department of Materia Medica, Maharana Pratap Homœopathic Medical College, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India
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21 March 2017 (online)

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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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