Abstract

ROLE OF JALAUKAVACHARAN (LEECH THERAPY) AND PANCHAVALAKALA KWATH DHAWAN IN THE MANAGEMENT OF CHRONIC NON HEALING WOUND (DUSHTA VRANA)

Dr. Rajendra Sonekar, Dr. Satvashil B. Bansode* and Dr. Aruna Sonekar

ABSTRACT

A chronic non healing wound is a wound that does not heal in an orderly set of stages and in a predictable amount of time or wounds that do not heal within three months are often considered chronic. Chronic wounds often remain in the inflammatory stage for too long and may never heal or may take years. Many wounds pose no challenge to the body’s innate ability to heal; some wounds, however, may not heal easily either because of the severity of the wounds themselves or because of the poor state of health of the individual. In advance era technology related to wound healing is developing rapidly. Especially in therapeutically way new techniques are involved in wound disloughing (vrana shodhana) and wound healing (vrana ropana). Many researches has done on therapeutic aspect of wound healing along with ayurvedic remedies. It shows that herbal medicine and leech therapy have enormous effect on wound healing. Panchavalkala Kashaya dhawan and jalaukavacharan is one of them.

Keywords: Jalaukavacharan, panchavalkala kwath dhawan, chronic non healing wound, dushta vrana,