Abstract

COMPARITIVE CLINICAL STUDY ON VICHARCHIKA (IRRITANT CONTACT DERMATITIS) WITH VISHGHNA LEPA ALONE AND AFTER VIRECHANA KARMA

Ankur Mishra* and Alok Kumar Shrivastva

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Abstract

Ayurveda is a highly evolved & codified system of health science for life. Ayurveda is the oldest existing medical system of the world and it is based on purification of the body in a natural way. Ayurveda is divided into eight branches. Agada Tantra is one of the branch of Ayurveda which deals with diagnosis and treatment of the poison. Acharya Charaka and Acharya Shusruta have separately told the concept of contact poisoning. According to Ayurveda, irritant contact dermatitis is symptomatically very similarly to Vicharchika described in various texts. In the present study 30 vicharchika (irritant contact dermatitis) patients were registered from the O.P.D., Department of Agadtantra, Rishikul Ayurvedic College, Haridwar. All patients completed their treatment. The aim of the study was to evaluate the role of selected ayurvedic medicines on the management of Vicharchika. The treatment schedule was to apply vishaghna lepa alone in Group A patients applied locally over the affected area twice a day for a period of 45 days and Vishghna lepa after Virechan karma in group B patients applied locally after planned virechana over the affected area twice a day for a period of 45 days. In present study overall Result of Group A is 35.3% & Group B is 69.26% No adverse drug reaction was found in this clinical study.

Keywords: Kushtha, Kshudra Kushth, Dermatology, Dermatitis, Vicharchika, Vishghna, Virechana.