Recurrent tonsillitis is described as when an individual suffers from several attacks of tonsillitis per year. Chronic and recurrent tonsillitis both cause repeated occurrences of inflamed tonsils which have a significant impact on a patient’s quality of life. Numerous children suffer from recurrent tonsillitis and sore throats, and these illnesses become part of their life. Antimicrobials can provide temporary relief, but in many cases tonsilitis recurs. The cause of such recurrent infections have been identified as microorganisms which often create biofilms and a repository of infection in the wet and warm folds of the tonsils. Chronic inflammatory changes in the tonsils are usually the result of recurrent acute infections treated inadequately. Recurrent infections lead to development if minute abscesses within the lymphoid follicles. These become walled off by fibrous tissue and surrounded by inflammatory cells. 

Homoeopathy is a system of medicine that has scope in chronic or recurrent tonsilitis because allopathy has nothing to offer other than tonsillectomy. Treatment option of chronic or recurrent tonsilitis include the conservative treatment consists of attention to general health, diet, treatment of coexistent infection of teeth, nose & sinuses. Tonsillectomy is indicated when tonsils interfere with speech, deglutination and respiration or cause recurrent attacks. As Hahnemann described it, a miasm defined as the fundamental cause of an erroneous or diseased state of the. Chronic conditions are caused by chronic miasms, just as acute conditions are caused by acute miasms. Miasms cause a complete dynamic and physical change to the interior of the whole man...his whole being is altered. It is only after this complete change has occurred that symptoms of the disease change have occurred that the disease or illness are demonstrated. Chronic diseases slowly progress and symptoms result over the course of a lifetime, due to an inadequate constitutional response to a miasm. With respect to acute disease or illness,there is a rapid onset of symptoms progressing towards a crisis which ends in recovery or death without treatment. For example, cancer is typically a chronic disease that progresses slowly over the years whereas the flu is an acute disease that progress swiftly over a few days. In both conditions the entire body has to be compromised or changed by the miasm before the symptoms are demonstrated by the patients. So, in case chronic tonsilitis that is result from recurrent attack of acute tonsilitis or infection of the tonsils that lasts longer than a week or two, there is underlying chronic miasms is present. So, in homoeopathy in such chronic conditions or disease or recurrent disease on the basis of underlying prominent miasm of patient we give the simillimum & anti-miasmatic medicines to the patient. By this way we can treat the person as a whole & remove the disease from its root. We can also prevent the disease by preservative measures. In case of chronic diseases we can also prevent surgical measures or recurrency by giving proper homoeopathic medicine on basis of miasms. So, our purpose of study of miasmatic interpretation of chronic tonsillitis is to prevent tonsillectomy & to prevent recurrence of tonsillitis and to remove the disease from its root. Homoeopathic management of chronic tonsillitis include both preventive and medicinal view. Because prevention is always better than cure. We can prevent the recurrent tonsillitis by good oral hygiene and other ways. And by giving simimllimum homoeopathic medicines also cure the chronic tonsillitis from root without tonsillectomy and no recurrence occur.

v RESEARCH QUESTION: -

How is miasms useful in the management of Chronic Tonsillitis or Recurrent Tonsillitis.

  HYPOTHESIS: -

1.     Null Hypothesis —

There will be no improvement after prescribing Homoeopathic Medicine in case of chronic tonsillitis.

2.     Alternate Hypothesis —

There will be significant improvement in symptoms after prescribing Homoeopathic medicine in case of chronic tonsillitis.