Trial of Homeopathy on Management of Menorrhagia

NMP Medical Research Institute

Status: Completed

Conditions: Menorrhagia

Treatments: Drug: Homeopathy; Drug: placebo

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01460043

NMP-0032-HR

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to compare outcomes and quality-of-life issues in the treatment of menorrhagia, this randomized double blind controlled trial compared homeopathy and placebo. Clinical criteria were confirmed the diagnosis, and subjective assessment of the condition was performed during one pre-treatment and three treatment cycles. outcome measures were bleeding days, intensity. average pads used during menstrual cycle, abdominal & back pain, General health and overall satisfaction.

Enrollment: 25 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 35 to 49 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age between 35-49 years with regular heavy menstrual bleeding
• menstrual loss requiring more than 5 Pads/tampons per day
• menstrual cycle longer than 6 days

Exclusion criteria

• Organic causes of menorrhagia
• History of renal or hepatic impairment,
• Endocrine disorder including diabetes, thyroidism
• Thromboembolic disease,
• Inflammatory bowel disease,
• Peptic or intestinal ulceration, or coagulation or fibrinolytic disorders and --Malignancy.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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25 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

placebo

Placebo Comparator group

Treatment:

Drug: placebo

Homeopathy

Experimental group

Description:

Individualized symptom based therapy

Treatment:

Drug: Homeopathy