World Journal of
Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences

CONCEPTUAL STUDY ON EFFECT OF VARUNADI CHOORNA PINDA SWEDA ON MANYASTHAMBHA

Dr. Priti Dilip Mahale, Dr. Vaishali R. Chaudhari*, Dr. Mamata Nakade, Dr. Pranesh Gaikwad, Dr. Snehalata Pawar

ABSTRACT

Ayurveda is a form of the Indian traditional system of medicine that has been used since ancient times to treat diseases with the help of herbal medicines and panchakarma. Now days, incidence of neck pain is increasing with an increase in desk jobs as well as after COVID due to work from home and an increase in working periods on laptops. Cervical spondylosis is a degenerative condition involving the vertebrae and discs of the neck. It occurs in both males and females, usually after the age of 40. It presents most commonly in women due to bending and doing house chores works. In modern medicine, it is correlated with cervical spondylosis. Modern management has conservative treatment with analgesics and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs with physiotherapy, but these only provide symptomatic effects and are costly sessions as well. Manyasthambha is vatavyadhi for which Acharya Charak had advised various treatment for vatavyadhi one of them is swedanaChoorna pinda sweda is modified form of samskara sweda it can provide good effects. Considering all the above points varunadi kwath choorna pinda sweda which has been described in Gada nigraha has been selected to assess its efficacy in treating manyasthambha.

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