Abstract

A CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS ON TAMAK SHWAS W.S.R. TO BRONCHIAL ASTHMA - A REVIEW STUDY

Dr. Prakash Joshi*

Abstract

Tamaka Shwas is a very broad term which includes many more diseases where dyspnoea (shortness of breath) is predominant and major symptom. But still we can correlate Bronchial Asthma to Tamaka Shwas, because out of the remaining four, three are incurable and the fourth one is Kshudra Shwas developed due excessive labor or taking excessive Ruksh Ahara and which is easily curable. Could It is easily treated in the initial stages, but as the disease becomes chronic, its treatment becomes difficult. In Ayurveda the word Shwas define its meaning as an independent disease as well as symptom and complication of other disease. There are the episodes of disease, so that the life of the patient is endangered. Acharya Charak described Tamak Shwas as a Yapya type of disease in which the patient has to depend on medicines for relief and Acharya Sushrut considers it as Krichh Sadhya Vyadhi. Different concept of treatment of Tamak Shwas has been highlighted by Acharya Charak. Every Ayurvedic physician must have the detail knowledge of Tamak Shwas to decide different aspect of Chikitsa as well as prognosis of the disease.

Keywords: Tamak Shwas, Bronchial Asthma, Yapya, Krichh Sadhya.