Abstract

A CLINICAL STUDY OF WOUND HEALING IN DIABETIC’S WITH VARIOUS AYURVEDIC THERAPEUTIC PROCEDURES

Dr. Yunus G. Solanki* and Dr. Sonali Rameshwar Surkar

Abstract

India is developing country and it is getting a dubious distinction asdiabetic capital of world. Many patients come with presentingcomplaint of non-healing wound and then diagnosed as diabetics.Diabetic wound is difficult to heal even after controlling blood sugarlevels and controlling infection; because of mechanism of woundhealing doesn’t occur in proper order in these patients. For properwound healing, wound should be cleaned and rendered devoid of anycontamination, still in some patients it was observed wound healingwas not as good & as fast it should have been . Wound cleansing withPanchvalkal kwath not only helps as shudhikaran( de-sloughing) butpromotes wound healing ( shodhan and ropan ) . Panchvalkal kwath is good for diabeticwound cleansing ( shodhan ) as it contains dravya which are Kashay rasatmak .Besides itrequires a procedure or medicine which promotes good blood circulation Present study of 5patients of non-healing diabetic wound encompasses multi-dimensional approach towarddiabetic wound healing , which includes wound cleansing with panchvalkal kwath , Ksharapplication , Vasant-kusumakar ras orally and leech application at wound site and dressingthe wound with ropan tail. As it is a ongoing clinical study, presently completing 5 no. ofpatients 2 no. of patients wound healed completely and 3 no. patients require very few daysof further treatment. Hence, in conclusion diabetic wound healing require multiple treatmentmodalities besides blood sugar level control.

Keywords: Diabetic wound, desloughing, shodhan, ropan, micro-desloughing.