Abstract

A RANDOMIZED CLINICAL STUDY TO EVALUATE THE EFFECT OF DHANYAMLA PARISHEKA AND TWAK NIRGUNDI PARISHEKA ON PAIN PARAMETER IN AMAVATA W.S.R TO RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS

Kritika*, Niranjan Rao, Padmakiran C. and Sandesh Shetty

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Abstract

Sandhi Shoola is the symptoms which make the patient to compromise his/ her physical, psychological, social efficiencies. Among them, amavata is most common condition where the involvement of vata and ama is evident by the symptoms like sandhi soola, sandhi stabdhata. Amoung the therapeutic measures rooksha swedana is advocated for management of pain and alleviating other symptoms due to amadosha. Dhanyamla, Twaka patra, nirgundi patra are common durgs indicated for parisheka as having vatakaphapaham, sholahara, ushna, rooksha, strotoshodhana properties. Considering this twak nirgundi parisheka and dhanyamla parisheka can be used for treatment of amavata. Present study was an open label comparative clinical study where 30 patients of amavata were randomly treated with Dhanyamla parisheka and Twak Nirgundi parisheka daily 30 minutes for 7 days. the study showed Both Dhanyamladhara and Twaka Nirgundi Parisheka statistically significant improvement pain parameter and no difference on in between group comparision.

Keywords: Amavata, Dhanyamlad Parisheka, Twaka Nirgundi Parisheka, Sandhi Shoola.