Abstract
Background Rural homoeopathic hospital has been serving the community in and around Palghar
for the past 20 years. Through a Central Government Scheme of Centre of Excellence,
it received funds for setting up an inpatient psychiatric unit in 2012 whereby it
could serve the wider community by admitting the patients with mental illness in a
secure ward. This is the second of two papers on the experience of homoeopathic treatment
of psychiatric inpatients and details of the outcome of homoeopathic treatment to
patients admitted between 2014 and 2018.
Objective Efforts have been made to explore the outcomes of homoeopathic intervention, singly
or as adjuvant treatment, for a variety of clinical conditions and to determine the
commonly indicated remedies that were found useful.
Methodology A standard operating procedure enabled symptom analysis and evaluation; it also enabled
to erect the homoeopathic totality and institute treatment along with conducting the
follow-up. Retrospective analysis using Outcome Related to Impact on Daily Living
scale helped to establish the results of homoeopathic intervention.
Results An excellent response to homoeopathic intervention was obtained for several clinical
conditions like alcohol withdrawal (76.3%), conversion disorder (82.17%), suicide
attempt (85.13%), anxiety disorders (84.19%), depressive disorders (75%) and somatoform
(85.17%). The rate of improvement in schizophrenia (60%) and epilepsy (22.6%) was
lower. The commonly indicated homoeopathic remedies for each clinical condition were
identified. This information would help practitioners to acquire knowledge of a pool
of remedies from which they could readily determine the similimum.
Conclusion Homoeopathic treatment, either alone or as an adjuvant, is useful in the management
of psychiatric inpatients for several clinical conditions. Remedies found useful in
different clinical conditions need to be studied in greater depth to identify their
leading indications.
Keywords common homoeopathic remedies - homoeopathy treatment - ORIDL scale - psychiatry inpatients
