Abstract

Health & disease are the two faces of a coin. The concept is to aid human beings to provide healthy life and to prevent diseases. Lifestyle diseases are on the rise due to innumerable factors. Pedal edema is one of the common problems in middle and old-age persons. According to sign and symptoms of edema it can be correlated to Shoph or Shoth according to equivalent symptoms mentioned in the relevant literature. Pedal edema is a common clinical condition which can be found in any age group or socio-economic class in society but it is commonly seen in females of old women. Ayurvedic management measures appear to be more satisfactory and promising due to their holistic and totalistic approach. Punarnava is a well-known shoth-har drug that is commonly used in clinical practice. But Punarnva has not been mentioned in soth-har gana. Soth-har gana includes Dashmool Dravya. So in this study, the effect of Shoth-har Mahakashya and Punarnvastak Kwath has been assessed in managing Pada Shotha in old age patients. A total of 10 patients of Pada Shoth were randomly selected from Kayachikitsa OPD at SAMC & H, Aligarh, divided into two groups for the study. The study duration was 2 weeks and it was found that Punarnvastak Kwath gave better results in the first week but Shoth-har Mahakashaya was better for long-term use in relieving the symptoms.

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