Abstract

AN APPRAISAL OF IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME WITH VATIK GRAHANI ROG OF AYURVEDA

Rajpoot Ranjana*, Tripathi J. S. and Tiwari S. K.

Abstract

In today modern life style, stress has becoming an inescapable part of our daily routine work. Stress is chain of non-specific physical and psychological events triggered anytime; sustained stress leads to increased risk for a variety of illness like hypertension, ulcer, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), heart disease, depression, insomnia, irritability, asthma, headache, and many minor illnesses. Among all these, IBS is a very common GIT disorder in our society. Most of the patients attending gastroenterological clinic for G.I complains are suffering from IBS. It is chronic disease in nature; diagnose on symptoms based criteria. Signs and symptoms of IBS vary periodically from mild to severe and finally stern enough to hamper social life of patients. Till date no appropriate treatment for these patients is available. In Ayurvedic phrase, the famous GIT disorder grahani‟s subtype vatik grahani share the symptoms of IBS. Vatik grahani is a not only mandagni janya vikar, but also initiate due to mansik dosha. The unsuitable ahara and vihar leads to mandagni and derangement of natural function of saman vayu and apana vayu which is finally responsible for the expression of IBS symptoms. Therefore, the successful management of IBS can be achieved by ayurvedic principle of vatik grahani chikitsa. The drugs with deepan, pachan, vatanuloman and medhya properties or with their combination cure the IBS in most effective way.

Keywords: Stress, IBS, GIT, Vatik Grahani, Mandagni.