Clinical Efficacy of Vishamushtyadi Vati in Tobacco AddictionA Randomized Control Trial
Journal Title: International Journal of Ayurveda and Pharmaceutical Chemistry - Year 2018, Vol 0, Issue 0
Abstract
Tobacco chewing as well as smoking is a severe problem all over the world including India. There are so many smokeless products like Gutka, Jarda, and Pan Masala etc. available in the market that contains nicotine and more than 4000 other toxins which are harmful to human beings and cause incurable disease like cancer. According to Centre for Disease Control report, chewing of tobacco used 7-8 times in a day may be equivalent to smoking 30-40 cigarettes per day. In Ayurveda, certain terms like Oaksatmya, Vyasana, Mada, etc were found and those can be correlated with addiction. Pragyaapradha is the main causative factor of all kind of Addiction. In this study, 40 patients with tobacco chewing addiction were registered and they were categorized into two groups viz., Group-A & Group-B, consisting of 20 patients in each group from de-addiction OPD of National Institute of Ayurveda, Jaipur. It was noticed that five patients from each group had discontinued the trial. All 30 patients were randomly divided into two groups. Group-A patients were treated with Vishamushtyadi Vati (250 mg BD) along with Tagaraadi kwath ghan vati (500mg) and Group-B patients were treated with Haridra ghan vati (500 mg BD) along with Tagaraadi kwath ghan vati (500 mg BD). The result was prepared on the basis of statistical analysis and it is concluded that study drug is more effective than control drug in Tobacco chewing Addiction.
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Meena Kumari Mahto, Anita Sharma, Vinod Kumar Gothecha
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