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CRITICAL ANALYSIS ON SANDHIGATAVATA AND IT’S MANAGEMENT THROUGH AYURVEDA W.S.R TO OSTEOARTHRITIS

*Dr. Rishabh Gupta, Dr. Tripti Nigam, Dr. S. N. Tiwari and Dr. Pravanjan Acharya

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Abstract

In the present era, sandhigatavata is the most common disease affecting a large population. Sandhigatavata term is derived from words as 'sandhi' and „vata‟. Sandhigatavata a degenerative disorder of the joints especially affecting weight bearing joints like knee joint, elbow joint etc results in restricted movement and painful in the affected joint, obesity, malnutrition, old age, working pattern etc are the affecting (contributing) factors for manifestation of sandhigatavata. Sandhigatavata is the disease mentioned in ayurved and is a type of vatavyadhi which most commonly occurs in vriddhavastha due to dhatukshaya. In jaravastha, all dhatus undergo kshaya thus leading to vataprakopa and making individual prone to many disease. Acharya charak was the first person who described the separately named “Sandhigataanila”. The trouble of sandhi by prakupita vata is the main phenomena in samprapti of sandhigatavata. Sandhi come under the madhyam rog marga. Dhatu kshaya and vata dosha figures disease kashtasadhya so, this study deals with systemic evaluate of sandhigatavata and the purpose of this work to check and highlight the effectiveness of various ayurvedic interventions in osteoarthritis patients.

Keywords: Sandhigatavata, vatavyadhi, vriddhavastha.