Abstract

A CONTROLLED CLINICAL STUDY OF KATAMKATAIRYADI KWATHA AND METFORMIN IN PRAMEHA PURVARUPAVASATHA WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO PREDIABETES

R. R. Ghungaralekar*

Abstract

Prediabetes is the precursor stage before diabetes mellitus in which not all the symptoms required to diagnose diabetes are present, but blood sugar is abnormally high. This stage is often referred to as the "grey area."The term prediabetic is an intermediate stage used to describe a person with impaired blood glucose tolerance levels of fasting between 100 and 126 mg/dl of blood or whose 2-hour postprandial blood glucose was 140-200 mg/dl. In present study, the Prediabetes stage is compared with pramehpurvarupavastha of Ayurveda. And thus, the efficacy of katamkatairyadikwath is compared with established drug metformin on 60 patients divided in two groups for 3 months. The comparison shows that katamkatairyadi Kwath is almost as efficient as metformin and can be use safely in prediabetes.

Keywords: Prediabetes, Pramehpurvarupavastha, Katamkatairyadi Kwath.