A study to compare the effectiveness of Pothos foetidus and indicated remedies in allergic rhinitis patients assessed with quality questionaire and absolute eosinophil count.

Abstract

In this fast moving world, people do not patience to wait till the body adopt to natural healing processes and gradual disappearance of the symptoms.They need a quick relief,therefore resort to so called specifics in Allergic rhinitis. This study is intended to evaluate whether Pothos could be used as a remedy in alleviating the acute suffering of allergic rhinitis. So here an attempt is made to compare the effectiveness of POTHOS FOETIDUS by assessing the reduction in Absolute Eosinophil Count & improvement in the Quality of Life with other indicated remedies to evaluate the therapeutic supremacy, if any, possible. In this study 30 Patients with allergic rhinitis of 10-65 years of age people were selected and separated as 2 groups. The 1st group was treated with POTHOS FOETIDUS and the 2nd group was treated based on symptomatology. The AEC & RQoL was assessed before and after the treatment.By comparing Pothos group had significant subjective and objective improvement quickly compared to other group.Here, 11-20 years of age group (57%)& females are affected more.The count was reduced in both group but more in Pothos group.Quality of life is more improved in pothos group (80%) than other remedies (60%) in 1-2 weeks of follow up.Therfore this study shown up the new remedy that is less used by many homoeopaths in allergic rhinitis, plays a greater role by its quick action, shorter duration of disappearance of symptoms and reduction in AEC.