TY - JOUR T1 - Homeopathy-medicine induced severe alcoholic hepatitis JF - BMJ Case Reports JO - BMJ Case Reports DO - 10.1136/bcr-2019-229627 VL - 12 IS - 5 SP - e229627 AU - Cyriac Abby Philips AU - Philip Augustine AU - Rajaguru Paramaguru AU - Rizwan Ahamed Y1 - 2019/05/01 UR - http://casereports.bmj.com/content/12/5/e229627.abstract N2 - We present a teetotaler with compensated non-alcoholic fatty-liver-disease related cirrhosis who presented with acute worsening of his chronic liver disease. The acute event was not discernible even after extensive work up and finally a transjugular liver biopsy revealed features suggestive of severe alcoholic hepatitis. The patient and the family denied occult alcohol use when questioned over multiple times and finally, the culprit ‘alcohol’ was found to be the homoeopathy medicines that the patient was consuming over a month for treatment of Gilbert’s syndrome. We retrieved and tested the homoeopathy drug for alcohol content and found an alarming 18% ethanol in the same, confirming our diagnosis. ER -