NIDAN PANCHAKA AND CHIKITSA OF AMAVATA VYADHI – A CRITICAL REVIEW

The Amavata is one of the crippling disease-causing serious agonizing painful condition. This disease leads man to measurable condition as the severe pain make the person disable and confined him to bed. The Amavata is difficult to manage, as there is no curative treatment is available in modern science, so it has challenged the medical system. If this disease remains untreated it will run very long course leading to permanent deformity and many other systemic complications. The Madhav Nidana and Bhavprakasha mentioned the disease. Amavata is disease of rasvaha srotasa, it generally compared with rheumatoid arthritis. Amavata is the disease having two predominant factors Ama and Vata. Agni plays important role in the manifestation of the disease. When a person having Mandagni follows wrong food habits it results in production of Ama. It affects the Sandhi and produces the symptoms like aruchi, gaurava, angamarda, alasya, Jwara, Sandhi shoola, Sandhi Shotha which are the cardinal symptoms of Amavata. It is an autoimmune disorder in which chronic inflammatory arthritis observed. Madhav Nidana and Yogratnakara samhita explained in the detailed about Nidana, Samprapti, Poorvarupa, Chikitsa. This article is an attempt to highlight this topic in detailed about chikitsa sutra explained in various Ayurveda samhitas. Nowadays Amavata patients are increased day by day, so this article will be very useful in practice who practicing Ayurveda medicine. for clinical research.