World Journal of
Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences

ROLE OF AYURVEDA DRUGS & PANCHKARMA PROCEDURES IN CEREBRAL ATROPHY: A CASE STUDY

Dr. Rajneesh Pathak*

ABSTRACT

Aging and increasing number of elders in population is a matter of great significance because of its likely impact on public health. Atrophy of any tissue means loss of cells. Cerebral atrophy is a common feature of many of the diseases that affect the brain. In brain tissue, atrophy describes a loss of neurons and the connections between them. Atrophy can be generalized, which means that all of the brain has shrunk; or it can be focal, affecting only a limited area of the brain and resulting in a decrease of the functions that area of the brain controls. Diseases that cause cerebral atrophy include stroke and traumatic brain injury Alzheimer’s disease, Pick’s disease, and fronto-temporal dementia cerebral palsy. This particular disease is not described in Ayurveda but cerebral atrophy may be considered as mastiska-gata majja dhatu kshaya. Because old age is the period for vata aggravation thus atrophy is common in old age. In it, vata prakopa seen so that vata shamaka ahara-vihara, snehana karma & brihan nasya along with Aswagandha tablet with mansyadi kasaya have a role to manage this disorder. In wholesome complete cure of cerebral atrophy cannot be achieved but beneficial to prevent further degeneration or slows down the progressive degenerative changes.

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