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Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences

A CONTROLLED CLINICAL STUDY TO EVALUATE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PASHANABHEDADI KWATHA IN THE MANAGEMENT OF PITTASHMARI –CASE SERIES

Shubhangi* and Shilpa P. N.

ABSTRACT

Ashmari formed in pittashaya is explained as pittashmari in classics the clinical features may be correlated as
agnisanga, udara shola, ajirna, chardi and aruchi. it can be correlated with cholelithiasis in contemporary science.
Symptoms in general include right hypochondriac region pain radiating to back, nausea, vomiting, indigestion,
abdomen discomfort. prevalence of cholelithiasis varies according to geographical distribution, sex and age. The
treatment modalities of cholelithiasis in conventional science are conservative medications and surgical procedures
which are expensive, involve invasive treatments, needs hospitalization and in most of the case recurrence rate is
high. Ayurveda explains variety of yogas for the management of ashmari. A pashanabhedadi kwatha is indicated in
pittashmari as per Rasatarangini. So this study is taken up, to explore the effect of pashanabhedadi kwatha in
pittashmari keeping in view the shortcoming of different modern medical treatments.

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