PSORIASIS & KUSTHA
Dr. Pulak Kanti Kar*
ABSTRACT
Objectives: Psoriasis is one of the most common eruptive disorders of the skin. Psychological effect of this disorder is very much traumatising due to its social and cosmetic point of view. According to different popular Ayurvedic books though psoriasis has been compared with “Ekkustha”, but the different stages and varieties of this disease can be compared with major varieties of Kustha described in the classics of Ayurveda. Hence the main objective of this article is to find out the correlations of the above mentioned types of kustha with that of psoriasis. Method: Observational studies of the clinical findings in different patients have been noted. Result & conclusion: keen observation of the features of the skin lesions in different condition confirmed that psoriasis cannot be treated as a single disease variety according to Ayuveda, rather different varieties and stages of this disease should be treated as different types of Kustha mentioned in the classical text of Ayueveda.
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