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A CLINICO COMPARATIVE STUDY ON THE ROLE OF VAMANA WITH KUTAJADI YOGA AND VACHADI YOGA IN THE MANAGEMENT OF KITIBHA KUSHTA WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO PSORIASIS

Dr. C. Lahari* and Dr. V. Lakshmana Prasad

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Abstract

The world is ever-changing and evolving at an accelerating rate. Today our health, fitness and illness are greatly influenced by our lifestyle. The Life style changes such as food habits, behavioural patterns, and environmental changes, etc. leads to various chronic, autoimmune, degenerative, hormonal and metabolic disorders. Skin, being the immediate organ of the body is more susceptible to these changes. Psoriasis is one such disease. Kitibha can be correlated to Psoriasis in terms of similarities in Lakshanas. Symptoms of Kitibha comprise of Syava, Kinakhara sparsa and Parusa Lakshanas. It is categorized as Vata Kaphaja, Kshudra and Ssdhya Kushta. The reported prevalence of psoriasis in countries ranges between 0.09% and 11.43%, making psoriasis a serious global problem with at least 100 million individuals affected worldwide. Kitibha kushta is a Vata-Kapha predominant disease. Hence, for the elimination of Vata and , Snehapana followed by Vamana can be done. Hence the present topic is “A Clinico Comparative study on the role of Vamana with Kutajadi yoga and Vachadi yoga in the management of Kitibha Kushta with special reference to Psoriasis”. Methods: In the Present study, 60 patients of Kitibha Kushta were selected and placed randomly in 2 groups, A and B with 30 patients in each group. Group – A and B was treated with Murchita Go-ghritam Snehapana followed by Vamana Karma with Kutajadi yoga and Vachadi yoga respectively. Results: Both the groups showed statistically significant results. However, the effect of Group B was better than Group A in all the parameters except in Auspitz sign, Candle grease sign, Koebner’s phenomenon, PASI Scoring and DLQI. Conclusion: The results concluded that Vachadi yoga (Group – B) has yielded better therapeutic dividends in overall perspective in relative terms to Kutajadi yoga (Group – A).

Keywords: Kitibha Kushta, Psoriasis, Vamana, Kutajadi yoga, Vachadi yoga.