Abstract

AN AYURVEDIC APPROACH TO THE MANAGEMENT OF PITTA PREDOMINATING TWAKA VIKAARA: A CASE REPORT

Dr. Preeti Choudhary* and Dr. Naresh Jain

Abstract

Skin is one of the most important organ of the body because it protects the internal organs from deleterious environmental influences. Biological agents which includes a variety of infecting or infesting organisms which can thrive on the skin and produce diseases. Some individuals may be born with a defective ability to protect themselves and such individuals succumb to the environmental agents more easily and more frequently than the others. According to Ayurveda science the concept of skin diseases is very different. All types of skin diseases are consider as Kushtha roga. All the skin diseases are associated with the simultaneous vitiation of all the three doshas. But the symptoms represents of predominating doshas respectively. In this case A 25 years old female patient came with chief complaints of severe itching, burning sensation and hyperpigmented nodular changes at both upper and lower extremities since 04 months. She also told that the points are scratched by the nails or any other sharp objects which used for itching by her. For this she had taken some home remedies but not found any relief, In this case the main cause of twaka vikaara is vitiation of pitta dosha in predominantly also vitiation of vaata, kapha doshas and rakta dushti in subsidiary. So our line of treatment is alleviation of pitta, vaata and kapha doshas respectively and also blood purification. After 1month of medication about 80% of symptoms subsided on the basis of changes in skin appearance before and after treatment.

Keywords: Skin diseases, Kushtha roga, Paittika twaka vikaara, Shamana chikitsa.