Abstract

A CONCEPTUAL STUDY OF PICHU KALPNA IN VARIOUS VAGINAL INFECTIONS CORRELATION WITH AYURVEDA

Dr. Neha Anil More* and Dr. Chetana Kulkarni

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Abstract

Now a days, woman have suffering from many diseases, due to changing life style. Vaginal infections (yonivyapad) is one of the remarkable problems. vaginal infections are identified primarily in sexually active. women In India Bacterial vaginosis (BV) is the most prevalent infection (48.5%) followed by vulvo-vaginal candidiasis (VVC) (31%) and mixed infections (20.5%) Candida albicans was found to be the most prevalent species Out of non-albicans Candida (NAC) species, C. tropicalis was found to be the most prevalent species. Overall distribution of C. albicans and NAC species indicated marginally high prevalence of NAC species (53%) than C albicans (47%).[1] Specific screening measures like Pap smear and wet vaginal swab when employed appropriately revealed the cervical pathology. In Ayurveda, acharyas explained about yoni vyapat among twenty types of yoni vyapat-kaphaja yoni vyapat, pittaj yonivyapad, sannipataj yonivyapad, upapluta, vipluta(acharna), shushka, yoni vyapad can be correlated with vaginal infections. There are some sthanika chikitsa (Local Therapies) in Ayurvedic Streeroga shastra described by Ancient acharya’s that possess outstanding & satisfactory outcomes in the management of stree rog. Pichu Kalpana is one of them. Which is more useful as sthanik chikitsa in streeroga. Different Taila, Ghrita, Kalka are use for pichu kalpana. The reason behind for chosen the vaginal route because of the rugae of the vaginal epithelium create an involuted surface and results in a large surface area provide, this large surface area allows the trans-epithelial absorption of medications via the vaginal route & the posterior fornix have rich blood supply so actively absorption of drug.

Keywords: Which is more useful as sthanik chikitsa in streeroga.