India has at least 284,471 registered homoeopathic medical practitioners, practicing in government or private clinical/research settings. Due to the unique tenets of Homoeopathy based on individualization and the lack of standardized and well-structured case recording format, there is a paucity of documented clinical cases. In Homoeopathy individual cases contribute to the evidence pyramid by giving an insight into the prescription patterns of Indian homoeopathic doctors. A wealth of information is lost due to the absence of a Clinical Cases Registry in Homoeopathy which is being developed as a national / global database of clinical case.
Homoeopathy was discovered by a German Physician, Dr. Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843), in the late eighteenth century. It is a therapeutic system of medicine premised on the principle, “Similia Similibus Curentur” or ‘let likes be treated by likes'. It is a method of treatment for curing the patient by medicines that possess the power of producing similar symptoms in a healthy human being simulating the natural disease, which it can cure in the diseased person. It treats the patients not only through holistic approach but also considers individualistic characteristics of the person. This concept of ‘law of similars' was also enunciated by Hippocrates and Paracelsus, but Dr. Hahnemann established it on a scientific footing despite the fact that he lived in an age when modern laboratory methods were almost unknown . Homoeopathic medicines are prepared from traces of animal, plant, mineral and other natural substances, by a standard method call...
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