A CLINICAL STUDY ON VEDANASTHAPAN MAHAKASHAYA OINTMENT AND VEDANASTHAPAN GHANVATI IN THE MANAGEMENT OF PARIKARTIKA W.S.R. TO ACUTE FISSURE-IN-ANO

Abstract

Parikartika (anorectal fissure) has become the most common and painful condition in anorectal disorders. Nowadays, people have faulty lifestyles and improper food habits, leading to the vitiation of doshas, particularly Apana vayu, which is a significant factor for deterioration in anal conditions leading to fissures in the ano with severe pain in the anal region. In Modern science, various treatment modalities, including antibiotics, laxatics, sphincterectomy, fissurectomy, etc., are expensive and require long hospitalisation with other unwanted complications. Hence, pain management is the first step by Vedanasthapan drugs, which results in pain-relieving and rapid healing of the fissure. The lack of analgesics in ayurvedic medicines is a disadvantage, and there is a constant quest for an ideal ayurvedic analgesic medicine like vedana-sthapana drugs. The properties of Vedanasthapanamahakashaya ointment and Vedanasthapana ghanvati are the group of drugs which subside pain and restore all vitiated doshas in the body to an equilibrium state. So, the Vedanasthapan Mahakashaya, on the basis of the chemical constituents of each drug, can be estimated that the part of drugs which is used to subside the pain in the body and these classes of drugs have the qualities of analgesic, anti-inflammatory and wound healing properties.