Abstract

MANAGEMENT OF SANDHIGATA-VATA (OSTEO-ARTHRITIS)

Dr. Neha Arya*, Dr. Pavesh Kumar and Dr. Uttam Kumar Sharma

Abstract

Worldwide osteoarthritis is most common joint disorder. The disease usually affects in the fourth decade, and the occurrence increases linearly with age. In Ayurveda osteoarthritis is correlated with the disease sandhivata which is described under the chapter of vatavyadhi. The disease can be defined as a disease of sandhi with symptoms of sandhishula, sandhisotha and akunchana prasarana pravritti swedana and in the later stage hanti sandhigatah. This is the condition of osteoarthritis as per modern texts. Acharya charaka has explained so many preventive and curative modalities for the management of sandhivata in the vatavyadhi chikitsa.

Keywords: Osteoarthritis, sandhivata, vatavyadhi.