Effect of Homoeopathic Medicines in Management of Hypothyroidism

Hypothyroidism is an endocrinal disorder conventionally treated by long-continued hormone replacement therapy. The signs and symptoms pertaining to different systems of the body are seen in Hypothyroidism. Besides some adverse effects, the treatment cost of the therapy implies the patients to seek alternative therapy. The patient presents with complaints of weight gain, puffy hands, depression, tiredness, hair fall, constipation10, and also an increase in the level of TSH. Objective: Primary objective: To study the severity of symptoms in the cases of hypothyroidism.Secondary objective: To study the reduction in levels of thyroid hormones. Methods and materials: Selection of criteria: 1) Inclusion criteria: all age groups, both sexes, a patient already taken allopathic treatment, Patient only on homoeopathic treatment, thyroid disorders associated with other systemic diseases. 2) Exclusion criteria: hypothyroidism in pregnancy, other disorders of thyroids (hyperthyroidism, Hashimoto’s disease, Graves’s disease). Cases were collected in MHMC OPD, Peripheral OPDs.Result: Homoeopathic medicines were found to reduce the severity of symptoms and also a reduction in TSH in patients with higher TSH values. Conclusion: Homeopathic Medicines are effective in reducing the level of Thyroid hormones -TSH and in the Severity of symptoms. Thus causing an improvement of Hypothyroidism.