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REVIEW ARTICLE ON GARBHASHAYA ARBUDA- AYURVEDIC PERESPECTIVE OF GARBHASHAYA ARBUDA (UTERINE FIBROID)

Dr. Akanksha Pathak* and Dr. Anjana Saxena

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Abstract

Woman is one of the most beautiful creations of God and is bestowed with the precious blessing of achieving motherhood, which is most wonderful period in her life Uterine fibroid is not only the commonest benign tumor of uterus but also the commonest solid tumor in females that usually found in women of reproductive age group. One in every five women of child bearing age suffers from uterine fibroid. Uterine fibroids represent the principal cause for hysterectomy. They generally lead to some specific symptoms including heavy menstrual bleeding, pelvic pressure, bladder irritability, infertility and pregnancy loss etc. and also interfere in women‟s normal day to day life due to tiredness, weakness etc. they mostly cause symptoms between age of 35-45 years but probably exist in microscopic form before the age of 30 years. On exploration Samhita, though the disease Arbuda has been described widely but no special reference of Arbuda in female genital tract is available. But on the basis of clinical feature arbuda and granthi may relate with uterine fibroid. On the basis of specific clinical features of Mamsaja Arbuda as well as description of Granthi in general, it can be said that all relatively big neoplasms developing from muscular and fibrous tissues (myoma and fibromas) come under Mamsaja Arbuda and granthi at all.

Keywords: Fibroid, Arbuda, Granthi, Mayoma, Fibroma.