A CASE OF 'IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA' (I.T.P.)

What is thrombocytopenic purpura (I.T.P.)?

I.T.P. is a disease with drastic reduction of the platelets in blood without a known cause. (Normal platelet count is 1.5 to 4.5 lacks). An adequate number of normally functioning platelets is necessary for normal ‘clotting of the blood’ or in still a simpler language, to stop bleeding.

 There are two types of I.T.P. - 1) acute and 2) chronic.  

Acute I.T.P. is common in children usually following some infection.

Chronic I.T.P. is more common in adult females. 

In such cases mild to severe bleeding in the form of ecchymosis, epistaxis (bleeding from nose), bleeding gum, bleeding from other mucosal surfaces and excessive bleeding following injury and surgical procedures occur. 

Treatment offered in allopathic system of medicine for I.T.P.

In chronic I.T.P. the main line of treatment is administration of steroids and spenectomy i.e. removal of spleen. Patients invariably are left to undergo this major operative procedure resulting in life long pain and suffering. In case of severe bleeding blood transfusion is given but soon the platelets are destroyed. On stopping the treatment (steroids) there is relapse. Also immuno-suppressive therapy is given in some cases. 

Today a patient has ceased to be a fellow human being with an illness. Rather they have been reduced to mere amalgams of medical data. These fully documented cases reveal how rapidly, gently and permanently these patients can be cured and health restored. When a patient is diseased it’s not only he or she but their near and dear ones too who are subjected to the gruesome ordeal. Homoeopathic principles and remedies if applied conscientiously can translate this language of ‘dis – ease’ to ‘ease’. It can transform ‘dis – harmony’ into ‘harmony’.  

These cases express the underlying principle of homoeopathy i.e. to shift the emphasis from knowledge of disease to the knowledge of human being in whom the disease exists.

 … Case … 

This is a case of a young lady age 28 years who came to see us in April 1999 diagnosed as an I.T.P. patient. At the time of consultation she was on tablet Immuran 5mg 1-1-1, and tablet Pentid 800 mg 1-0-1. Her platelet count had dropped drastically and she had already undergone a very rigorous and aggressive allopathic treatment. 

Though this problem existed a couple of years prior to its diagnosis no doctor really took a serious note of it. In 1997 she had an abortion and the blood test done that time revealed a very low platelet count. Also she would get ecchymotic spots without any injury or hurt. 

When she came to see us she was suffering from sever headache, chest pain on talking, tremendous weakness, ecchymotic patches, backache, asthma and hair fall (since after chemotherapy). She had undergone splenectomy in February 1999. She had received five 1000mg steroid injections followed by splenectomy and in spite of all this her platelet count was only 2000!!  … this was followed by chemotherapy but after the second cycle she refused to take it any more for the violent side effects.  

Since the beginning she had a tendency to catch cold and many a times it would culminate in an attack of asthma.

After going through her case history thoroughly and understanding her as an ‘individual’ in mind as well as body we started her homoeopathic treatment.   

She started improving gradually. We gradually stopped all her allopathic medication.   

Today after 4 years she is a happy, healthy and energetic lady. Her platelet count as well as her Red blood cell morphology is completely normal (See table above). She is full of life and enthusiasm. Regular blood tests reveal a normal platelet count. There are no more ecchymotic spots on her body. Her asthma is cured. She gets an occasional mild coryza. She is still under observation, as we want to keep a record of her state of health.

We have many such fully documented cases of I.T.P. successfully treated at our centre but we do not want to be read as advertisers. These cases have been cured because every principle that binds the law of Homoeopathy i.e. Similia Similibus Curantur is applied in each individual case of sickness ... then miraculous result is always a by product of that application. 

Today a patient has ceased to be a fellow human being with an illness. Rather they have been reduced to mere amalgams of medical data. These fully documented cases reveal how rapidly, gently and permanently these patients can be cured and health restored. When a patient is diseased it’s not only he or she but their near and dear ones too who are subjected to the gruesome ordeal. Homoeopathic principles and remedies if applied conscientiously can translate this language of ‘dis – ease’ to ‘ease’. It can transform ‘dis – harmony’ into ‘harmony’.  

This case expresses the underlying principle of homoeopathy i.e. to shift the emphasis from knowledge of disease to the knowledge of human being in whom the disease exists.

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