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1Vinayaka Mission's Research Foundation Deemed University, Vinayaka Mission's Homeopathic Medical College and Hospital, Salem, Tamil Nadu, India. rajendranes@eth.net
Homeopathy : the Journal of the Faculty of Homeopathy
|November 9, 2002
Abstract:
Molluscum contagiosum is a benign and contagious disease of the skin. In a series of 30 consecutive patients, 15 had full resolution, 12 were improved. Brief case histories of the 15 patients who fully resolved are presented. The homeopathic medicines most frequently associated with positive outcome were Natrum sulphuricum, Sulphur and Natrum muriaticum.
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