Effect of Ayurvedic Medicines in the Management of Vartma Sharkara with special reference to Conjunctival Concretions – Pilot Study
Journal Title: International Journal of Ayurveda and Pharmaceutical Chemistry - Year 2017, Vol 0, Issue 0
Abstract
On the basics of Aurveda Rasa (taste), Guna (properties and qualities), Virya (potency), Vipaka (post digestive action) and Prabhava (special effect) are the five interrelated working factors in a drug. Hence a physician should be considered the vitiated Doshas and Dhatus of a specific disease and prescribed the medicines while considering those particular drugs’ working factors. Vartma Sharkara is one of the Sannipataja Vartmagata Roga (disorders in eyelids) and is a curable by Lekhana Karma (scraping procedures). It can be correlated with “Conjunctival concretion” or “Lithiasis” which is a degenerative condition of the conjunctiva. Treatments are not essential if it is asymptomatic but if it gives symptoms should be removed by hypodermic needle under topical anaesthesia which is almost all the time causes conjunctival damages, sometimes conjunctival inflammations. Thus this study was planned to develop a successful, safe and sustainable line of treatment in the management of conjunctival concretion or Vartma Sharkara according to the principles of Ayurveda. The present study was carried out at the eye OPD of NIA, Jaipur as per the exclusion and inclusion criteria. The line of treatment was mainly focused on Shodhana (purification), Lekhana (scraping) and Santarpana (Nourishing) type of medicines. Hence Samudraphena Varti Pratisarana and Anjana, Thriphaladi Netra Parisheka and Ashwagandha – Shatavari powder orally were selected. The uniqueness of this therapy was concretion can be removed without causing any damage to the conjunctiva. The results proved that Varma Sharkara or conjunctival concretioncan be successfully managed with Ayurvedic treatments without any adverse effects.
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K G Surangi, Shamsa Fiaz
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