Different types of dermatophytes infections and their homoeopathic management: Review article

Abstract

Dermatophytes are microorganisms that affect human beings globally. It significantly impacts an individual's overall health and quality of life, leading to symptoms such as itching, redness, swelling, and multiple lesions, mostly effect on Individuals with teenagers, adults, children, and immune deficiencies are more prone to widespread infections. It gets transmitted through close contact with clothes, utensils etc. Typically, these infections are at their worst during summer and the rainy season, but they will often heal on their own during the winter months. Homoeopathy is a holistic system of medicine that focuses more on dynamic concepts than materialistic concepts. We have studied some review papers, research journals, and survey reports to gather more knowledge about the effectiveness of homoeopathic medicine on dermatophyte infection. We found that there are different individualised homoeopathic medicines like Sulphur, Rhus Tox, Sepia, Tellurium, Psorinum Thuja Occidentalis, Mezereum, Borax, Graphites, Arsenicum iodatum, Apis Melifica, etc. This review article is solely dedicated to summarizing all the above literature on the different parameters like different types of dermatophyte infections like Tricho-dermatophytes, Glabrous dermatophytes, Intertriginous dermatophytes, Palmo-plantar dermatophytes, ungual dermatophytes, their cause, clinical representation, pathological diagnosis, and homoeopathic management to treat this. It is one of the most common complaints in the homoeopathic practice, Patient may represent various conditions during the visit to a homoeopath. Sometimes patients may come asymptomatic with different conditions.