Abstract

LITERARY REVIEW OF KARNINI YONIVYAPAD: CERVICAL EROSION

*Dr. Guddi Sagar Yadav

Abstract

Ayurved has elaborated Gynecological disorders under the entity of yonivyapadas. Karnini yoni vapad is one among the twenty yonivapadas. Reproductive health deals with the reproductive processes, functions, and system at all stages of life. Pathological vaginal discharge is very common among woman, especially of rural. White vaginal discharges along with the other symptoms like the feeling of weakness, pain in the back and calves, loss of vital fluids, the pruritis on and around the vulva, thighs, and pelvic joints etc., comes under the heading of Leucorrhea and the most important cause of leucorrhea is cervical erosion in these days. Cervical erosion is best correlated with Karnini Yonivyapad in Ayurvedic classics. In Samhitas, all gynecological disorders come under the big heading of the Yonivyapada. Description of Yonivyapad has been described by all the scholars of Brihatrayee and Laghutrayee.

Keywords: Yonivyapad, Women, Cervical erosion, Leucorrhea.