Postpartum depression with repertorial approach

Abstract

Postpartum depression (PPD) affects 15-20% of women globally, driven by hormonal withdrawal, HPA axis dysregulation, neuroactive steroid deficits and psychosocial stressors. PPD's pathophysiology—including estrogen/progesterone, allopregnanolone reduction and monoamine imbalances—and differentiates it from baby blues, mild depression, and postnatal psychosis. Adopting homoeopathy's holistic lens, it emphasizes the "similia similibus curentur" principle, individualized totality of symptoms, and psychical remedies per Hahnemann's Organon §226. Repertorisation via Kent's Repertory on anxiety, irritability weeping, and disturbed sleep, revealing a predominant psoric miasm as per “Chronic Miasms in Homoeopathy and Their Cure with Classification of Their Rubrics/Symptoms in Kent’s Repertory” by Dr. Ramanlal. P. Patel. Treatment prioritizes non-antipsoric remedies acutely, followed by antipsorics to address underlying diathesis, offering a dynamic, susceptibility-based approach to restore vital force and prevent recurrence