Analytical Study of Homoeopathic Medicines of Ranunculaceae Family and Their Utilization in Menorrhagia

Ranunculacea (buttercup or crowfoot) family belongs to vegetable kingdom. Most of the remedies from this family are herbs. Remedies belonging to this family mostly cause moderate to severe inflammation of the mucous membrane and serous membrane producing profuse discharges, severe inflammation, tumefaction and ulceration with burning and smarting. These remedies are suited to plethoric type of people, low state of vitality. Therefore, these are more useful as deep constitutional remedies. Along with other actions they have marked action on reproductive organs and menstrual complaints in females, such as menorrhagia. Menorrhagia is defined as the cyclic bleeding at normal intervals; the bleeding is either excessive in amount (>80ml) or duration or both. Homoeopathy is a holistic system of medicines in which there are number of remedies which are proved on healthy human beings and have potential to cure the innumerable diseases either acute, or chronic. So to check the efficacy of Homoeopathic medicines of Ranunculaceae family in menorrhagia, an exploratory study was done with simple random sampling technique at Guru Nanak Dev Homoeopathic Medical College and Hospital, Ludhiana for a period of 1 year and 8 months. Objective: To study the efficacy of Homoeopathic medicines belonging to Ranunculaceae family in menorrhagia. Result: After proper case taking individualization of each case has been done and medicine selected on the basis of similarity of symptoms. Conclusion:The findings of the above study concluded that the four medicines; pulsatilla, actea racemosa, staphysagria and aconite have well marked result in menorrhagia.