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Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences

EFFICACY OF AYURVEDIC TREATMENT PROCEDURE ON GRIDHASI (LUMBO SCIATICA SYNDROME) IN AN AYURVEDIC HOSPITAL -A RETROSPECTIVE STUDY

Sanatan Rai*, Archana Rai, Rohit Kumar Ravte, Achintya Mitra and Jayram Hazra

ABSTRACT

Gridhasi is one of the most important of vata vyadhi characterised by ruka (pain), stambha (stiffness), toda (piercing pain) and gourava (heaviness) which starts from sphik pradesh (hip) and radiates downwards through pristhabhaga of kati (waist), pristha (back), uru (thigh), janu (knee), jangha (shank) and pada (foot). In modern sciences, it is correlated with sciatica syndrome. Sciatica is pain radiating through sciatic nerve trunk. It is mainly caused by compression of nerve root resulting from IVDP, osteophytes and canal stenosis. Chief symptom of sciatica is pain radiating from buttocks down to the leg. The present study compromised of 22 patients of Gridhasi selected from indoor patient department of National Research Institute of Ayurvedic Drug Development, Kolkata. Treatment included simhanad gugulu, ajmodadi churna and haritaki churna, kativasti with mahanarayan taila. Results were accessed based on improvement of symptom by ?t? test which was p <.001 in this case suggesting significant results.

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