A cross sectional study on usage of Ennvagaithervu for diagnosis among post graduate scholars at Government Siddha Medical College Hospital, Palayamkottai
Journal Title: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CURRENT RESEARCH IN MEDICAL SCIENCES - Year 2018, Vol 4, Issue 10
Abstract
Background: The Siddha system of medicine is an ancient system of medicine and it has unique diagnosis method “Ennvagaithervu” as Naa, niram, mozhi, vizhi, sparisam, malam, moothiram and naadi. Insufficient studies noted about the usage of Ennvagaithervu for diagnosis among Post graduate Scholars at Government Siddha Medical College and Hospital, Palayamkottai even though it’s cost effective and easy. Objective: To assess the utilization of Ennvagaithervu by Post graduate scholars. Methods: The study was conducted to evaluate the use of Ennvagaithervu among Post graduate Scholars (170) at above college. The data was collected by using questionnaire. Result: The current study reveals that 88.2% PG Scholars are practicing Ennvagaithervu, 72.4% succeed to diagnose the disease through Ennvagaithervu, 86.5% of the PG Scholars state that Ennvagaithervu is the special trademark of Siddha system and believed Ennvagaithervu diagnosis gives better results than other competitive systems(63.5%). 63.52% of PG Scholars revealed their opinion that (77 Female and 31 Male) most of the doctors when they treat patient don’t use Ennvagaithervu completely for diagnosis. 38.2% of PG Scholars checked ‘saadhalkuri’ on severe cases and diagnosed whether the patient is curable or not and 28.2% found accurate saadhalkuri on patient. Out of the eight diagnostic tools naadi is preferred mostly (54.7%). Conclusion: The current study concludes that PG scholars have positive attitude on usage of Ennvagaithervu for diagnosis and Naadi plays major role on diagnosis.Further studies need to analyse usage of eight component of Ennvagaithervu.
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Neppolean. S, Victoria. S R. Rajarajeshwari
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