Abstract

Vatkantak is one type of vat-vyadhi, which is most common form of articular disorder. Today’s era, continue standing work like conductor, heavy weight, labour work, travelling and injury etc leads to this disease. All the osteoarthritis diseases in Ayurveda have been described under the heading of ‘vatvyadhi’ vatkantak can be correlated with the calcaneal spur. Here in the case study a female patient of age 45 years presenting with clinical features of vatkantaka and was treated with Agnikarma got relief within 15 days.

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