AN OBSERVATIONAL CLINICAL STUDY ON THE EFFECT OF NARIKELA KUSUMA: YOGA IN MUTHRASHMARI VIS A VIS URINARY CALCULI
Journal Title: Journal of Biological and Scientific Opinion - Year 2014, Vol 2, Issue 1
Abstract
The disease Ashmari is one among the eight major diseases or Astamahagadas. Detail information regarding the various aspect of the disease is available in the texts of Ayurveda. This infers the prevalence of ashmari since the inception of medicine in India. Even in the current era also, urinary calculi is an important health problem. In India 5-7 milllion people are estimated to be suffering from the disease. So only the study was conducted to evaluate the efficacy of narikela kusuma yoga in the management of mutrashmari. An observational study was conducted on 20 patients who were sampled in to one group. All the patients were administered the formulation in the form of kalka consisting of 10 g of narikela kusuma and 500 mg of yava kshara, twice daily for 21 days two hours before the intake of food. A pre test and a post test observation was made in terms of relief of symptoms such as bastipeeda, mutrakrichra etc, and in terms of reduction in the size of the stone. The reduction of size of the stones and relief of predominant symptoms like basti peeda, mutrakrichra were highly significant statistically with P < 0.001.
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Gajanana Hegde
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