Hypothyroidism

Therapeutics

Dr. K. John Paul

 Common symptoms of Hypothyroidism

• Slow to thrive • Oedema/stocky

• Depression/psychoses • Hoarseness of voice
• Mental retardation • Goitre
• Weakness • Infertility
• Cold intolerance • Menorrhagia
• Constipation • Dry scaly skin
• Loss of hair
 Thyroidinum
• In myxoedema & cretinism its effects are striking
• Arrested development of children
• For sudden acute mania & hair loss in myxedema
• Goitre, obesity
• Sensitive to cold
• Contraindicated in tubercular patients
• Prepared from the dried thyroid gland of sheep or
calf
 Arsenicum
• Has been found to be a normal constituent
of the healthy thyroid gland
• Dry scaly skin

Calcarea carbonica
• Pituitary & thyroid dysfunction
• Great sensitiveness to cold
• Difficulty in learning to walk or stand; no
disposition to walk and will not try
• Feels better in every way when constipated
• Defective assimilation & imperfect
ossification
 Baryta carbonica
• Children backward mentally & physically,
dwarfish
• Very sensitive to cold
• Very weak & weary, must sit or lie or lean
on something
• Loss of memory, mental weakness
Fucus vesiculosus
• Obesity
• Impaired digestion
• Flatulency
• Obstinate constipation
 Iodum
• Loss of appetite
• great torpidity and sluggishness
• no haste is found anywhere in this remedy
• everything is slow & even diseases are not
speedy in their termination
• skin rough and dry
• hypertrophy of thyroid and other glands
except breast
 Iodothyrine
• Enlargement and induration of all lobes of thyroid.
• The enlargement causes compression of the structures of the
neck, dyspnoea, whistling respiration, hoarseness, short, dry cough,
• Caution; Use it cautiously in obesity for a fatty heart may not be
able to maintain the accelerated rhythm.

Doryphora decemlineata
• Elastic swelling of whole body which will not pit on pressure
• Complaints associated with burning
• Resemblance with cantharis
• Colarado beetle/potato bug
 Lapis albus
• Silicofluoride of calcium
• Endemic goitre
• A species of gneiss found by Grauvogl in the mineral
springs of Gastein, and named by him Lapis albus,
"White Stone.
• These waters flow over gneiss formations into the
valley of the Achen, where goitre and cretinism
abound

Sulphanilamide
• Sulfa. has a slowing down of all physical and mental
functions. Halt in development and puberty comes
late in the child.
• Goiter
• Hypothyroidism after acute diseases-
Thyroidinum
• Hypothyroidism with myxedema and carpal
tunnel syndrome-Syphilinum
• In thyroid disorders especially myxedema
complementary to thyroidinum is Bacillinum

Other remedies
• Ginko biloba
• Hypothalamus
• Pencillin
• Cortisone
• RNA