Abstract: Warts are common complaint encountered in OPD setup. Recurrence is also a common feature of warts, after cauterization and other forms of treatment. Here is one such case, where the patient was severely affected by the disease. After taking homeopathic treatment, there is no recurrence, which was there after he tried other forms of treatment. The case emphasizes on use of homeopathic treatment in all cases of warts
Introduction: Viral warts are extremely common and most people suffer from one or more at some point during their life. Warts are a result of infection with DNA human papillomavirus (HPV).
Transmission is by direct contact with the virus, either living skin or fragments of shed skin, and is encouraged by trauma and moisture (e.g. in swimming pools, fishmongers etc.
Symptoms: commonly found on hands, face and soles. They may have following symptoms
- Cauliflower, grainy small fleshy growth
- When in palm and soles, they may have flat appearance
- Planter warts are many a times painful.
- Warts can be single, multiple in number. In rare cases, even full body can be covered with warts
Present case: a male patient of 28 years presented with
1 Recurrent planter warts since 3 years
Patient started having warts on right foot since 3 years. He tried various forms of treatment, including getting it cauterized and surgically removed. Warts always came back and he had to endure severe pain owing to the removal of warts. At the time of presenting his case to us, he had no pain.
Treatment history: Patient took long allopathic and homeopathic treatment without any result and recurrence in few weeks after every treatment cycle.
Personal History: no addiction of tobacco, alcohol etc
Thermal reaction: hot
Desires: nothing significant
Aversion: nothing significant
Mental Generals: He was stressed because of the disease, as he gets it again after going through painful treatments.
Diagnosis: Recurrent planter warts.
Rubrics taken for Repertorisation and reportorial chart – RECURRENT WART – table 1
Only one rubric was taken on the basis of appearance of warts as every time it came up at the same site with same features.
Treatment: The treatment was started by giving Lycopodium 10 m and patient reported fall of wart over telephonic conversation. After 4 weeks, when patient reported no further improvement lycopodium 50 m /1 dose was given. All the warts got cured completely in 3 months and there is no recurrence till date. The patient was regularly followed up to see any recurrence for over 3 years now
Plan: The patient had already taken Homeopathic treatment from various other homeopathic doctors and had taken most commonly used warts medicines. He only had partial knowledge of medicines and was not able to remember all the medicines he had taken.
It was planned to decide upon on the simillimum and give it in higher dose
Follow up: Patient was evaluated every fortnight, to assess the improvement. Patient started getting relief at the start of treatment, hence it was decided to continue with the decided plan of treatment. Since he started showing improvement with the first dose, he was given the same medicine in higher dose. To date patient remains well and no relapse reported since 3 years of completing the treatment.
Discussion: This case had very few individualizing symptoms and hardly any subjective symptom. Lycopodium is present in many rubrics of warts but there is hardly mention of it in skin section of various materia medica. So, the rubric covering the totality was taken and the medicine was given.
Conclusion: Warts are commonly encountered problems in OPDs and every homeopath must know how to treat them. In the absence of medical treatment, the patient is left with no choice but to turn to cauterization of the warts. . Proper homeopathic treatment not only relieves the complaint but also gives long lasting relief from the disease.
Dr Renu Pande, MD
Founding Member – HomeopathyPoint
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