Abstract

Dr. Sonam Kumari Keshari*, Prof. Avadhesh Kumar, Prof. Neelam Gupta, Dr. Deena Nath Singh and Dr. Jai Shankar Prasad

ABSTRACT

Mootra-Ashmari is one of the most common disorder of Mootravaha Srotasa. Mootra-Ashmari is termed as renal calculi/urolithiasis in modern medical sciences. Now a day’s everybody is in state of hurry. This in turns ends with abnormal food habit, less intake of water, lots of perspiration which increases chance of getting stone. The consumption of food materials like milk (High in calcium), Leafy vegetables, tomatoes (High in oxalate), meat and non-veg food (High in protein content) increases the incidence of renal calculus. Urolithiasis is a pathological disorder of the urinary system that presents an important problem to all health-care systems because it causes urine crystalloids to aggregate anywhere in the urinary tract, from the kidney to the bladder. Urolithiasis affects about 12% of the world population at some stage in their lifetime. It affects all ages, sexes, and races but occurs more frequently in men than in women ratio of 4:3. Fifty percent of patients with renal calculus present between the ages of thirty and fifty. In India, approximately 5-7 million patients suffer from stone disease and at least 1/1000 of the Indian population needs hospitalization due to kidney stone disease. The recurrence rate is 50 to 80%. An alarming rise within the incidence of urolithiasis and motivation started by WHO to explore the possibility of cure through traditional system has created a momentum for further research in the light of ayurvedic resources.