Complicated Skin and Soft-Tissue Infections: An Ayurvedic Approach to its Management
Journal Title: International Journal of Ayurveda and Pharmaceutical Chemistry - Year 2019, Vol 0, Issue 0
Abstract
Complicated skin and soft-tissue infections are presently a commonly found clinical entity due to various reasons like antibiotic resistance, diabetes mellitus, HIV infections, cirrhosis of liver etc. Management of these conditions is a challenging task due to various factors which is even more complicated with emergence of antibiotic resistant cases. There is an important role that can be played by the use of concepts of wound healing present in the Ayurvedic texts mainly Sushruta Samhita which deals with rich therapeutic procedures and drugs used for the same. Along with different types and diagnostic features of wound, Sushruta Samhita discusses sixty types of treatment procedure for wounds which comprises of different treatment modalities including surgical and other methods. There is great scope of these techniques in management of complicated skin and soft-tissue infections in present era.
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Dhrubajyoti Talukdar, Pankaj Kumar Barman
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