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Arsenic Toxicity from Homeopathic Treatment
Dipankar Chakraborti‌, Subhash Chandra Mukherjee‌, Khitish Chandra Saha‌, Uttam Kumar Chowdhury‌, Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman‌ and Mrinal Kumar Sengupta‌
School of Environmental Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, 700032, India
Department of Neurology, Medical College, Kolkata, India
Retired Professor of Dermatology, School of Tropical Medicine, Kolkata, India



Abstract

Homeopathic medicine is commonly believed to be relatively harmless. However, treatment with improperly used homeopathic preparations may be dangerous.

Case Reports.Case 1 presented with melanosis and keratosis following short‐term use of Arsenic Bromide 1‐X followed by long‐term use of other arsenic‐containing homeopathic preparations.

Case 2 developed melanotic arsenical skin lesions after taking Arsenicum Sulfuratum Flavum‐1‐X (Arsenic S.F. 1‐X) in an effort to treat his white skin patches. Case 3 consumed Arsenic Bromide 1‐X for 6 days in an effort to treat his diabetes and developed an acute gastrointestinal illness followed by leukopenia, thrombocytopenia, and diffuse dermal melanosis with patchy desquamation. Within 2 weeks, he developed a toxic polyneuropathy resulting in quadriparesis. Arsenic concentrations in all three patients were significantly elevated in integument tissue samples. In all three cases, arsenic concentrations in drinking water were normal but arsenic concentrations in samples of the homeopathic medications were elevated. Conclusion.Arsenic used therapeutically in homeopathic medicines can cause clinical toxicity if the medications are improperly used.


My experience of treating melanosis with homeopathic tinctures is not equally encouraging. It resulted in scorching of epidermal layer of skin and exfoliation of skin and melanin went deeper into the dermal layer. However a regular application of cream with spf 20 or 26 has a positive effect with use of lot of antioxidant in the food.
 
  mazharmhm on 2010-02-02
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