A homoeopathic approach to inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)

Abstract

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is defined as chronic inflammation of intestines both large intestine and small intestine that results from genetic factors, environmental factors and immunological factors. Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) comprises of two major forms, that are known as Ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease. The clinical presentation of IBD are pain in abdominal region, diarrhoea, blood-stained stools and vomiting. In most of the cases of IBD, intestinal epithelial barrier function were predicted defected. In this review, we first describe both forms of Inflammatory bowel disease(IBD) that are Ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease with complete symptomatology and investigations along with rubrics and homoeopathic management.