Abstract

EFFECT OF APAMARG (ACHYRANTHES AASPERA LINN.) IN LEPROSY

Dr. Deodatta Bhadlikar*, Dr. Devyani Bhadlikar, Dr. Shruti Saxena, Dr. Archana Pandey Jumle, Rahul Jumle

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Abstract

LEPROSY is one of the socio-medical hazards. One who is afflicted with leprosy has got little scope in society as well as for the treatment. For the treatment because still such treatment is to be invented which can be fully relief having quick and certain action without much of the toxic effects. There are various handicaps in the field of leprosy research of which the main are our incapability of producing the diseaee experimentally and to culture the bacteria successfully. Really these are the responsible factors for the present miniature form of the leprosy treatment. Leprosy in India is very common. The disease is traceable upto vedic age which is placed to be somewhere upto 5000 B.C. India and Egypt are regarded to be the oldest homes of leprosy from where the disease started and spread. There is a concept based on Inductive logic that nature manages to produce good and evil together. The same must account for medicine. The area where a particular disease is most prevalent must have it’s antidote in the nature. A similar concept is found in Indian Medical Literature that drugs of a particular area are more effective for the persons of the same area. But these propositions can not stand for scientific evaluations. This is more true for the herbal preperations and for the medicines of animal origin. This principle is well applicable in leprosy. India is regarded to be the pioneer country to give the herbal remedy (Hyndocarpus wighitiana), the first and foremost treatment of leprosy. But it is our feeling that it is not necessary. That with this the Indian flora has exhausted for any further contribution.

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