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CASE REPORT - AYURVEDIC MANAGEMENT OF KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS

Biswajit Dash* and Rabindranath Acharya

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Osteoarthritis of Knee joint is one of the most common disorders among the joint diseases. The management of osteoarthritis depends upon the chronicity and the cause. It is the Physician who decides, whether an emergency treatment or conservative line of treatment is to be carried out. For many people pain in the Knee joint is the common complaint. In Ayurveda, this can be considered under vatavyadhi. Snehana is the best treatment for Vatavyadhi. Ayurvedic principles reveals the management for this with Matra basti, Janu basti. In this case the patient came with a X-Ray report on complaining of Janusandhi ruk (pain in Knee joint), Janusandhi stambha (Knee joint Stiffness). The patient was suffering from this complaint since six months, for the same the Orthopaedician adviced for surgical treatment of the Knee joint. But the Patient didn’t want to undergo for surgery. So, the patient came to Panchakarma Department of Govt. Ayurvedic College – Hospital, Balangir and was treated with Ayurvedic approach by Janubasti, Matrabasti and internal Ayurvedic medicines. The said treatment shows significant relief in pain and also improved the capacity to do daily work.

Keywords: Osteoarthritis, Matrabasti, Janubasti, Ayurvedic medicine.