Abstract

A CLINICAL STUDY TO ASSESS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF TILA TAILA KATI VASTI IN THE MANAGEMENT OF KATIGRAHA. (LOW BACK ACHE)

Dipankar Deka*, Niten Barman, Khagen Basumatary and Rigom Pegu

Abstract

Low-back-ache (katigraha) is seen to be one of the major condition affecting our daily activities. It is characterised by pain (Shool) & stiffness (graha) in lower back. In modern contemporary medicine, use of analgesics and physiotherapy are the only conservative remedies but in most of the cases the outcome of these are not satisfactory. Though analgesics are able to control the pain intensity but their regular use may produce several systemic side effects. While in most of the Āyurvedic classical texts principles of treatment and drugs for the management of this condition are described, especially Vastikarma, which gives high success rate with less recurrence. Here an open clinical trial was conducted on 50 patients between the age group 18 – 70 years of either sex, at Govt. Ayurvedic College & Hospital, Ghy 14, to see the response of kati vasti by using tila taila. The clinical trial showed a significant improvement in signs and symptoms of katigraha (low back ache). No any side effect was seen during the study. So tila-taila kati-vasti is found to be safe & ideal for the management of katigraha (low-backache).

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