Abstract

CLINICAL EVALUATION OF TAGARA (VALERIANA JATAMANSI JONES) AS A PREMEDICATION AGENT IN DISSOCIATIVE ANESTHESIA

Dr. Sunita Sharma*, Dr. Anil Dutt and Dr. Savita Katwal

Abstract

Preoperative anxiety is a challenging concept in the preoperative care of patients. Most patients awaiting elective surgery experience anxiety and it is widely accepted as an expected response. So it becomes the duty of anesthesiologist to treat preoperative anxiety. Various drugs have been used to control preoperative anxiety but none is free from side effects. Few drugs are mentioned in Ayurvedic literature which may be useful and may full fill today’s need of premedication. Keeping all these views, present study was undertaken to explore about preoperative anxiety in Ayurvedic parlance and then to formulate proper management. After the scrutiny of the various ancient texts, the drug Tagara was selected for the assessment of its adjuvant properties of premedication in this research work.

Keywords: Anxiety, preoperative, surgery, anaesthologist, tagara.