ABSTRACT
Objective: Haemorrhoids are associated with bleeding, pain, itching, exudation and swelling. So there is an unmet need foreffective treatment by both oral and topical drugs. Hence this study was designed to evaluate the efficacy of oral EuphorbiaProstrata fortified with Calcium Dobesilate and topical cream of Euphorbia Prostrata with Lidocaine. Methods: The study was aprospective, open label, single arm, multicentric study, in 30 patients with hemorrhoids treated with oral FDC EuphorbiaProstrata extract 100 mg plus Calcium Dobesilate 500 mg and topical FDC cream of Euphorbia Prostrata extract 1% w/w plusLidocaine 3% w/w for 14 days.Symptoms like bleeding, pain, itching, exudation and swelling were assessed and scored duringand at the end of the study. Results: There was decline from the baseline value scores right from day 4 i.e. bleeding (0.97±0.15),pain (0.60±0.13), itching (0.47±0.13), exudation (0.13±0.06) and swelling (0.43±0.09); after 7 days bleeding (0.15±0.07), pain(0.12±0.06), itching (0.15±0.07), exudation (0.15±0.07) and swelling (0.19±0.08) and after day 14 the symptoms of bleeding(0.09±0.06), pain (0.08±0.06) and swelling (0.08±0.06) were almost cured while symptoms like itching (0.00±0.00), exudation(0.00±0.00) disappeared completely. There was reduction in the number of patient’s population with symptoms towards the end ofthe study. Conclusion: Oral Euphorbia Prostrata extract 100 mg fortified with Calcium Dobesilate 500 mg and topical cream ofEuphorbia Prostrataextract 1% w/w with Lidocaine 3% w/w showed maximum improvement during first 4 days of therapy andachieved total improvement till the end of therapy thus providing multimodal targeted approach to treat a multimodalhaemorrhoidal disease.