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A CLINICAL AND LITRARY STUDY ON ARSHA (HAEMORRHOIDS) WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO SAMHITAS

Dr. Samrat Sunil Jadhav*, Dr. Ankush Dattatraya Khedkar, Dr. Amol Vishnu Ghodke, Dr. Sagar Babasaheb Ghalme and Dr. Abhijit Ashok Borude

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Modernization and luxury civilization lifestyle has changed with dietary habit of society. Change in this, causes disturbances in healthy environment. Life style diseases include diabetes, hypertension, heart attacks, young one with infertility, PCOD in female etc. Lifestyle related factors are mainly thought to be caused of increasing prevalence of haemorrhoids (Arsha). Although haemorrhoids are not fatal, physical and psychological discomfort related with various symptoms. Prevalence of haemorrhoids in routine OPD of institutional hospital which is located at eastern crowded side of metropolitan city of Maharashtra is 30.10%, among these very few patients required surgical treatment. Other patients were treated by conservative treatment methods, as described in Ayurveda. Dilated tortuous veins i.e. varicosity of the vain of anal canal is known as haemorrhoids.

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