Open AccessA CASE STUDY ON WOUND HEALING BY VRUNA SHODHAN CHIKITSA
Author(s) -
Vijayalakshmi Hadimani
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
international ayurvedic medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2320-5091
DOI - 10.46607/iamj15p5012020
Subject(s) - medicine , wound healing , blood supply , varicose ulcer , surgery , modalities , treatment modality , intensive care medicine , social science , sociology
An ulcer is the break in the continuity of skin or mucus membrane either by molecular death or traumatic removal1. It is essential to treat ulcer in surgical field as prevalence rate of chronic ulcer is 4.5 / 1000 popu-lation in India. These ulcers mostly caused by trauma, poor blood supply, diabetes, infections, and periph-eral vascular disorders etc. Ulcers heal when the causative factor will be removed and by the proper wound management, Acharya Sushruth, has explained 60 Vruna upakrams2(60 treatment modalities for wound) for the treat-ment of Dusta Vruna (chronic ulcer), among that Vruna Shodhan (wound cleaning) and Vruna Ropan (wound healing) modalities have been applied in this case, and observed the wound healing in detail and successful results noted