Digestive Disorders and Electrohomeopathy Approach
Published: 2022-12-22
Page: 177-190
Issue: 2022 - Volume 5 [Issue 1]
Prasant Kumar Sabat *
School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Kalinga Nagar, Bhubaneswar, 751003, Odisha, India.
Manoranjan Dash
State Electropathy Practitioner Association (SEPA), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.
Hemanta Sethia
Electrohomeopathy Chikitsa Parisada, Sir J. C. Bose Medical Institute of Electropathy, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
This particular review discusses the basic fundamentals of Electrohomeopathy medicine and its clinical findings related to functional gastrointestinal diseases (FGID). Though functional gastrointestinal diseases (FGID) are a complex group of disorders which affect all parts of the gastrointestinal system, this remedy corrects the pathogenesis of multiple symptoms from multi factorial causes. Each remedy of Electrohomeopathy medicine consists of complexly spagyric essence intermixed with a variable proportions of multiple bioactive constituents of medicinal plants. Therefore the information, is intended as a starting line to keep up the Electohomeopathy remedies for FGID which are rationally combined with multiple compounds. It is established as evident based therapeutic option for FGID. This review article, therefore, summarizes the basic knowledge of Electrohomeopathy medicines used in selected functional gastrointestinal disorders (FGIDs) and correlates them with the constituents of medicinal plants. Therefore, the information presented here is intended as a starting point to support the claim that FGID is one of the most important indications in Electrohomeopathy and rationally combined herbal extraction are established evidence-based therapeutic options. The review justifies that the Electrohomeopathy treatment of gastrointestinal disorders is found promising with reliable scientific evidence.
Keywords: Electrohomeopathy, functional gastrointestinal disorder, dyspepsia, IBS
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