EFFICACY OF VARMAM TREATMENT IN VALIPPU - SEIZURE DISORDER
*Dr. N. Sowmya, Dr. G.Revathi, M.D.(S) and Dr. N.Shunmugom, Ph.D.(Tamil)
Abstract
Seizures called as Valippu in siddha traditional system of medicine is
one of the most common serious neurological disorder affecting the
neonates and young children. In prevalence, nearly 80% of cases occur
in infants and developed countries. Epilepsy is characterized by
recurrent, episodic, paroxysmal involuntary clinical events associated
with alternation of cerebral function. An epileptic attack is an abrupt
and excessive electric discharge of cerebral neurons. Epilepsy is a
condition where there is a transient loss of consciousness in the patient
which may vary from few seconds to few minutes. The descriptions,
etio-pathology and some aspects of treatment of the seizure disorders
in Siddha system of medicine mentioned as
‘If more or less, three humors cause disease
The learned count the wind is the first of these.’
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