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AYURVEDIC MANAGEMENT OF KITIBHA KUSHTHA (PSORIASIS) - A CASE STUDY

Dr. Mayuri Prabhu Waghadhare and *Dr. Mukund D. Bamnikar

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Abstract

Psoriasis is one of the diseases of skin. Skin is an organ which comes in front of everyone’s eye. Every person in the world likes to look beautiful but due to some skin diseases a person has to deal with some situations like lack of confidence. In Ayurveda all skin diseases come under one banner i.e., kushtha. Due to vitiation of tridosha and dhatus like rakta and mansa various types of kushtha are formed. Psoriasis can be related to ‘kitibha kushtha’ in Ayurveda by its clinical features. In modern medicine there is no complete treatment of skin diseases but in Ayurveda psoriasis can be healed. We need to explore medication in Ayurveda to fight against such diseases. In this case study a female of 45 years suffering from psoriasis, since, 10 years history was cured by shaman chikitsa.

Keywords: Psoriasis, Kitibha kushtha, Skin disease, Shaman chikitsa.