Abstract

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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