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A CLINICAL STUDY TO EVALUATE THE THERAPEUTIC EFFECT OF LEKHANA BASTI AND GOMUTRA HAREETAKI ORALLY IN UTERINE FIBROID

Namitha S. N.*, Arpana Jain, Ramadevi G. and Rajalakshmi M. G.

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Background: Uterine leiomyoma, is a benign neoplasm, has a major impact on women’s health physically, mentally and economically if left untreated. In Ayurveda, this disease can be corelated to mamsaja arbuda based on symptoms. Since it is seen in garbhashaya, it can be coined as Garbhashaya Arbuda Even though the incidence and prevalence rate is high, the funding for research works done on uterine fibroid is less compared to malignant cases due to its increased morbidity rate than mortality rate. The women if diagnosed should undergo with necessary interventions. Aims and Objectives: To evaluate the therapeutic effect of lekhana basti and gomutra hareetaki orally in uterine fibroid. Methodology: A group of 20 patients suffering from uterine fibroid attending the OPD and IPD of Prasuti Tantra And Stree roga Department are taken for study. The research work is an open label clinical trial where patients diagnosed with uterine fibroid subjected for • Lekhana basti for first 8days • Gomutra hareetaki 1.5gm BD orally with honey before food from 9th day to 81days. Thus for a total of 3 months. The USG report is collected before and after the study to compare the changes. Result: In this clinical study, it has significant symptomatic relief. There was improvement in dysmenorrhea, menstrual abnormalities, weakness, pressure symptoms, amount-duration-clots during bleeding. There was significant change in objective parameters also. There were reduction in bulkiness of uterus, size of fibroid and number of fibroids. Conclusion: This clinical study proves that Deepana pachana, vata anulomana, kapha hara, lekhana, arbudahara gulmahara gunas provides significant relief from symptoms and significant reduction in size of uterus and fibroid.

Keywords: Uterine fibroids, Garbhashaya arbuda, Lekhana basti, Gomutra Hareetaki, lekhana, Arbudahara, Gulmahara.