The patient stated that he has been using his hand almost daily, and that at the present time he only had some minimal pain and almost full function of his hand.Ī 68 year old lady presented to the clinic with a comminuted fracture of the fifth metatarsal bone after an inversion injury (Figure 4a). Three weeks after the injury the patient presented to the clinic with the x-ray showing impressive and solid callus in the fracture site (Figure 3b). We finally agreed to treat him with a removable – futuro-type splint along with Symphytum officinale in the above mentioned protocol. Three weeks post injury.īelow – elbow full plaster, but he declined, stating that he would definitely have to use his hand in his daily activities. He was offered conservative treatment with aįigure 3a. Three weeks post injury.Ī 43 year old farmer presented to the clinic with a minimally displaced intra-articular fracture of the distal part of the radius after a fall (Figure 3a). He went back to light training in a week, and back to full practice just six weeks after the injury.įigure 2a. The clinical and functional picture of the patient was excellent. Just three weeks after the injury, the x-rays showed solid callus formation in the fracture site (Figure 2b). The alignment of the fragments was acceptable, so we continued treatment with immobilization in a full plaster along with the homeopathic treatment with Symphytum officinale, in the above mentioned protocol. He returned to light training four weeks after the initiation of the homeopathic treatment, and returned to full practice just 8 weeks after his injury.Ī 15 year old football player presented to the clinic with a minimally displaced fracture of the distal metaphysis of his right radius, sustained after a fall while training (Figure 2a). We hardly convinced him to be very careful over the next few weeks.
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Three weeks after treatment with Symphytum officinale.Īfter three weeks the radiological picture was impressive (Figure 1c): there was definite and solid callus bridging the bone fragments, but most important, the clinical picture of the patient was excellent: he could abduct his shoulder joint painlessly for up to 120° and also admitted that he had already started using his arm since the week before for light manual work. Nevertheless, we managed to convince him to continue conservative treatment with immobilization and the use of Syphytum officinale in the above mentioned protocol.įigure 1a. In the x-ray there was not obvious callus formation, the patient was in severe pain and he was already offered surgery for open reduction and internal fixation of the comminuted fracture (Figure 1b).Īnother factor against conservative treatment of this comminuted fracture was that the patient – although being an athlete – was a heavy smoker, smoking more than two packs of cigarettes a day for the last 15 years. Ī 34 year old semiprofessional football player presented to the clinic with a two week old comminuted fracture of his right clavicle, sustained during a football game (Figure 1a). From our knowledge this is only the second report in the English literature describing the use of Homeopathy in the fracture treatment. In all of the cases, initially, the potency used was 30CH, once daily for 10 days, and then 200CH, once a week for the next three weeks.
We present four cases of fractured bones in which, after the alignment of the fractured fragments was established and secured, we used Symphytum officinale in order to speed up the healing process. The story is that the bone would be set and then comfrey leaves would be bound to the area around the fracture with bandages.
Comfrey’s ancient English name is “knitbone”, and it is said that country bone-setters used it to repair broken bones. Symphytum officinale is the homeopathic remedy prepared from the common hedgerow plant – comfrey. Homeopathy, the “energy medicine”, is a branch of medical science based on the principle that disease can be cured by strengthening the body’s defense mechanism with substances selected for their energy-giving properties. Although in the first case the fracture was severely comminuted, and in the third and fourth, the patient’s compliance to the immobilization was very poor, the result of the treatment was excellent, both clinical and radiological.īone, fracture, healing, homeopathy, Symphytum officinale The remedy was given to the patients after the proper alignment of the bone fragments was secured. We present four cases of patients with bone fractures, which were treated with the aid of the homeopathic remedy Symphytum officinale.
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