Abstract

AYURVEDIC MANAGEMENT OF ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE – A CASE STUDY

Dipal Hanumant Ghadigaonkar*, Shrikant G. Deshmukh and Naresh Nimbalkar

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Abstract

Ischemic heart disease is nothing but inadequate supply of blood and oxygen to the myocardium and heart muscles. The most common cause of the IHD is artherosclerosis disease. Artherosclerotic plaque stuck between the arteries like LAD, LMCA, RCA, Circumflex artery and posterior artery etc which causes angina pain, arrhythmia, dyspnea, palpitation and chest tightness etc. other causes include obesity, heart failure, aortic stenosis, severe anemia, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, diabetes mellitus, smoking, renal disease and hereditary. various modern medicine has been use in the heart disease still patients are suffering with recurrent episode of angina and myocardial infarction. Various panchakarma and drugs have been proved useful for this manifestation. We present case as, which treated the pt. with the combination of antiplatelets drugs as well as ayurvedic drug. In this case we succeeded to reduce anginal pain and dyspnea. The pt. was considered suffering from ischemic heart disease.[1]

Keywords: Ischemic Heart Disease, Hrudrog, Electrocardiogram.