World Journal of
Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences

AYURVEDIC APPROACH TO DYSFUNCTIONAL UTERINE BLEEDING

Shrutika Surlake and Vishnu Bawane*

ABSTRACT

Women’s health refers to her physical, social, mental and emotional well-being. They have long been disadvantaged in many aspects of life such as social and economic states which restricts their access to the necessities of life including reproductive Health. One such deteriorating condition faced by today’s women is the Dysfunctional uterine bleeding. DUB is a condition which causes vaginal bleeding to take place outside of the regular menstrual cycle. In regards, certain hormonal conditions and medications may also trigger DUB. The main cause of dysfunctional uterine bleeding is an imbalance in the hormonal pathway and HPO axis. Some of the common symptoms related to DUB: heavy menstrual bleeding, bleeding that occurs less than 21 days from the last cycle, bleeding that contains many clots or large clots, bleeding that lasts more than 7 days, bleeding that occurs later than 35 days from the last cycle. The ancient system of Medicine i.e. Ayurveda describes in its classics, multiple treatment etiquettes for DUB. We present here a case study of 30yrs old female complaining of excessive vaginal bleeding for about more than a year diagnosed as DUB. After failing the results with modern drugs, she approached for Ayurveda care. Ayurvedic medications were given which showed significant results in her bleeding pattern.

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