International Journal of Homoeopathic Sciences

Introduction: Leucorrhoea is a very common condition of profuse vaginal discharge prevalent worldwide, causing distress in a female’s quality of life. It is classified as clear or whitish mucoid discharge from vagina in ICD-10 classification of diseases under section ICD-10-CM-Codes N89.8. There are many causal factors of this discharge due to any irritation of vaginal epithelial wall or pathology of female genito-urinary organs. Leucorrhoea can be physiological, pathological, and inflammatory in origin. Even-though physiological leucorrhoea is only an increased bland mucus discharge, but when it becomes pathological or inflammatory it can cause discomforting symptoms like vaginal itching, burning, severe backache, lower abdominal pain etc. The conservative management of leucorrhoea involves personal hygiene, antibiotics like povidone, metronidazole, energy boosting syrups and vaginal douches respectively depending upon the cause of the discharge. Long and persistent use of these medicines may lead to adverse effects. Individualised Homoeopathic treatment can provide an effective cure for leucorrhoea.

Case summary: This case report presents a 22 years old female, who complained of chronic leucorrhoea since last 1 year, which was very discomforting and lead to severe weakness and back pain. The Individualized treatment of the female patient with Homoeopathic medicine Cinchona officinalis treated and restored her health. The leucorrhoea was assessed through Leucorrhoea Assessment Scale (LAS scale), it was reduced from 20 to 10 within a span of 6 months of treatment. The causal attribution for Homoeopathic treatment was done with Modified Noranjo Criteria (MONARCH) score. Thus, this case emphasizes that Homoeopathy can play an important role in treatment of leucorrhoea.