1PG Scholar, Department of Practice of Medicine, Bharati Vidyapeeth (Deemed to be University) Homoeopathic Medical College and Hospital, Pune, 411043, Maharashtra, India. Email: mohnycy@gmail.com; ORCID: 0009-0006-6607-3984
2Professor, Department of Practice of Medicine, Bharati Vidyapeeth (Deemed to be University) Homoeopathic Medical College and Hospital, Pune, 411043, Maharashtra, India.
*Corresponding Author: Dr. Mohnyca Yumnam, PG Scholar, Department of Practice of Medicine, Bharati Vidyapeeth (Deemed to be University) Homoeopathic Medical College and Hospital, Pune, 411043, Maharashtra, India. Email: mohnycy@gmail.com
Background- Radiating leg pain, a common variety of low-back pain has an increasing lifetime prevalence up to 1.6 to 43% leading to severe pain and disability in patient's life. Rapid visits in out-patients department for its pain management with analgesics, NSAIDS, corticosteroids, muscle relaxants, and other biological agents neither support their efficacy nor tolerability of these therapeutics. Surgical approach to sciatica were rather controversial for its cost-effectiveness as well was its effectivity which doesn't last for two year or less. Homeopathic clinical trials has mostly emphasize on low-back pain and lumbar spondylosis, with limited studies specifically on sciatica. With very few evidence-based clinical trials exploring the innovative non-conventional approaches for sciatica. This clinical study targets to evaluate the effectiveness of organ-specific homeopathic remedies in managing sciatica pain.
Aims and Objectives- To assess the effectiveness of organopathic homoeopathic medicines in managing pain of sciatica.
METHODS: This is a non-randomized single-arm interventional study of one and half year carried out in Bharati Vidyapeeth (Deemed to be University) Homoeopathic Medical College and Research centre, Pune. A positive SLR examination and radiological diagnosed patient of sciatica were included for this trial. A total of 35 patients received organ-specific homeopathic drugs. Of them, 32 finished their follow-ups and 03 patients were drop-out. At each visits, Wong-Baker's Faces Pain Rating Scale for their pain intensity were noted as well as the associated debilitating symptoms. The organopathic drugs received by the subjects include hypericum, gaultheria, colocynth, gnaphalium and Rhus tox.
RESULT: A total of 32 patients were studied for this study. After analysis, the average score(mean) of WBFPS on the first day of treatment was 6.69±1.58 i.e. before treatment and after score of the last day of follow-up showed pain reduction with 2.44±2.48 . The test statistic in this case is statistically highly significant (Z=-4.682) with a p-value <0.05. The results suggest significant decrease in the average WBFPS of patients in the treatment of sciatica with organ-specific homoeopathic medicine.
CONCLUSION: In this study, organ-specific homoeopathic medicines showed sustained improvement in sciatica pain in a period of three-month duration. However, there is recurrence in few subjects. Additionally, there was reduction in tingling and numbness and other disability of sciatica. These results support the use of complementary organ-specific homoeopathic medicines in routine clinical practice in treating sciatica. A longer duration study with various study designs will increase strength of the study and yield more effective result.
KEYWORD: Sciatica, discogenic and non-discogenic sciatica, lumbar spondylosis, sciatica clinical trials, systemic review, homoeopathy, gnaphalium, hypericum, gaultheria, rhus tox, colocynthis.
How to cite this article: Yumnam M, Nerlekar MA. Evidence-based clinical study on pain management of sciatica with organ-specific homoeopathic medicines- an original article. Int J Drug Deliv Technol. 2026;16(11s): 795-802. DOI: 10.25258/ijddt.16.11s.81
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