Health Condition 1: null- Essential hypertension
Conditions
Interventions
Intervention1: Individualized homoeopathic medicine: Single individualized
homeopathic remedy orally in
centesimal or 50 millesimal
potencies as appropriate. Each
dose in centesimal potency was
single
identical in smell, taste and appearance
dispensed in similar manner to medicine
repetition 24, 12 or 8 hourly or even oftener - total duration of such intervention 6 months
Sponsors
Mahesh Bhattacharyya Homoeopathic Medical College Hospital Government of West Bengal
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Age between 18 years and 65 years 2. Both sexes 3. Suffering from essential/primary hypertension for at least 6 months 4. History, examination, and routine investigations revealed no evidence of obvious secondary causes 5. Giving written informed consent
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1. Any continued anti-hypertensive therapy for at least 6 months 2. Malignant Hypertension with grave signs and symptoms as detected clinically 3. Patients suffering from isolated systolic hypertension 4. Patients with labile hypertension 5. Patients with secondary hypertension 6. Patients not strictly conforming to the criteria given by JNC-7; variation of ±10 mm Hg in SBP/DBP considerable 7. Presence of severe concomitant infectious or systemic disease(s)or organ failure, psychiatric illness, developmental or congenital anomalies, and/or complications of hypertension 8. Pregnancy, breast feeding and likelihood of pregnancy 9. History of abuse and/or dependence on drugs and/or alcohol
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Change in systolic and diastolic blood pressureTimepoint: 6 months | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Proportion of patients achieving reduction in the two groupsTimepoint: 6 months | — |
Countries
India
Contacts
Public ContactSubhranil Saha
Central Council for Research in Homeopathy, Government of India
Outcome results
None listed