A CLINICAL STUDY ON AJMODADI CHURNA AND ERANDA TAILA IN THE MANAGEMENT OF AMAVATA (RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS)

Despite amazing diagnostic techniques and medicines, our society is suffering from unpreventable epidemics of heart diseases, cancers, rheumatoid diseases and other autoimmune diseases. Amavata is a crippling disease caused due to ama. In this disease, doshas get mingled with ama and take seat of kapha specially joints causing swelling, pain and stiffness there. In modern system of medicine its very clinical correlate is rheumatoid arthritis, an autoimmune inflammatory disease. In spite of superb anti inflammatory and immunosuppressive drugs and biological agents it is very difficult to cure rheumatoid arthritis completely. These drugs have various multi system side effect on prolong use. On the contrary, Ayurvedic medicines have minimal or no side effects on long term use and there is improvement in quality of life as well. In present study 17 patients were selected randomly from OPD and IPD of Sir Sundar Lal Hospital, BHU, Varanasi, India to study the effect of Ajmodadi churna and Eranda taila. There was quite improvement in the symptoms and not any side effect was observed as such