Abstract

*Vd. Minakshi C. Kale and Vd. V. E. Gogate

ABSTRACT

Background: Low back pain is widely prevalent these days due to living habits and hazardous work pattern. It is very common healthy problem. It can be acute or chronic. At present it is mainly treated with analgesic. Alternate treatment include physical therapy, rehabilitation and spinal manipulation by disc surgery remains last option when all other strategies have failed but outcomes are disappointing.[6] There are many causes of acute low back pain at out of them spinal nerves root injury or compression is one of cause. Also stress factor may cause the low back pain. In ayurveda there is no exact clinical entity mentioned in classics as katishool but it comes under many diseases as a symptom. As the pain that means shool which is exclusively due to vitiation of vata dosha.[9] As per ayurved Samhita samprapti of vatvyadhi has been described in two different types as upstambit and nirupstambit vatvyadhi. Basti is practiced widely in Ayurveda community for different vyadhis but niruha basti is given once a day. Only when Bruhatrayee persistently indicating more than one basti in a day to attain samyaka niruha lakshana.