Abstract

AMLAPITTA AND IT’S AYURVEDIC REVIEW

Dr. Ruhi Zahir* and Dr. Ravi Sharma

Abstract

Survival of an organism on the earth is always challenged by the nature. Hunger, adverse climatic conditions, protection against wild animals and diseases are important amongst survival. Today due to modern life style and food habits most of the population are suffering from a common disease called as Gastritis. According to recent survey Gastritis is a common medical problem. Up to 10% of people, who come to a hospital emergency department with an abdominal pain, have gastritis. The incidence of gastritis in India is approximately 3 in 869 that is about 12,25,614 people suffering from gastritis out of the total 1,06,50,70,607 population. In Ayurveda, sign and symptoms of Amlapitta mentioned by Ayurveda supporters looks very similar to GERD and Gastritis. Gastroesophageal reflux and gastritis resulting in heartburn affects approximately 30% of the general population. The seroprevalence studies from Delhi, Hyderabad and Mumbai have shown that by ten years of age more than 50% and by 20 years more than 80% of population is infected with gastritis.

Keywords: Gastritis, Amlapitta GERD.