Abstract

A CASE STUDY ON EFFECT OF RAKTAMOKSHAN IN ACCELERATED HYPERTENSION ACCORDING TO SAMANYAVISHESH SIDDHANT

Dnyaneshwar Rathod*, Prashant Yavatkar and Anil Pansambal

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Abstract

In the current era of development hypertension is an important public health issue. According to WHO, Hypertension is the serious medical condition. It is the major cause of premature death worldwide i.e 1 in 4 male and 1 in 5 female suffered with hypertension. Persistent hypertension increases the risk of heart failure, stroke, renal failure, blindness etc. In ancient times, in ayurved samhita, acharya explained the Samanya-Vishesh siddhant, according to this siddhant acharya says ‘Vruddhi samane sarvesham, viparyastu viparyaha. That means likewise things increases the same and opposite action decreases. With reference of above siddhant we started the treatment of hypertension with Raktamokshan by siravedh, briefly explained by acharya sushruta. In this study we found significant results of raktamokshan with application of samanya-vishesh siddhant.

Keywords: Hypertension, Siravedh, Raktamokshan etc.