Resolution of Some Burn Complications by Homeopathic Medicines

Burn injuries often lead to contracture, hypertrophic changes and hypopigmentation, which not only cause serious disfigurement and functional impairment but are also associated with social isolation, psychosis and depression. This is largely because most of the patients particularly of developing countries could not afford the cost of the conventional sophisticated treatment schedule. Thus in this study I opted to test the efficacy of one homeopathic medicine, which is of extremely low cost, so that general population may follow this new treatment if found effective. The medicine Graphites was selected by me based on my previous experience on treatment of burn cases. This single medicine was used to treat 100 post-burn scar cases with proper case taking, consent and the Vancouver Scar Scale (VSS) scoring, During follow up of the patients, 84 patients showed significant improvement of VSS scoring followed by cure of most of the cases, while only 16 cases did not show any significant change after treatment. Thus my appeal to those patients who remain untreated due to want of money, should follow this simple treatment protocol, and I also assure them that this medicine has got no side effect.