Abstract

Dr. Suman Kumari* and Dr. Sunita Siddesh

ABSTRACT

The innate desire in every woman is to become a mother. Pregnancy therefore is the start of an incredible journey that leads to great emotional fulfilment to woman. To have a successful motherhood continuation of pregnancy is as important as achieving healthy conception. There are many conditions which prevent a woman from being a mother. Habitual abortions are one among such conditions which can be correlated with Putraghni mentioned in Ayurvedic classics. Putraghni is a condition where repeated pregnancy loss occurs because of artava dosha, rakta dosha & ati raktasrava. Putraghni can be correlated with Habitual abortion where a sequence of three or more consecutive spontaneous abortions occurs before 20 weeks of pregnancy. There are number of underlying causes among which TORCH infection is an important cause. In this article, a case of positive TORCH infection with repeated pregnancy loss treated successfully with Ayurvedic medications i.e Phalasrpi & Torchnil is discussed.