Abstract

K. Rajeswari*, M. Suprithamuthu, K. Vennila, M. Meenakshi Sundaram and R. Meenakumari

ABSTRACT

Siddha system is a vast and unique system which defines health as a prefect state of physical, psychological social and spiritual wellbeing of an individual. In siddha medicine there is not only cure of disease but it also improve the quality of life by prevention and rejunuvation. Urticatria is one of the most common skin disease, characterized by the development of wheals(hives), angioedema, or both and it is classified as acute or chronic form based on the duration of illness. Urticaria of longer than 6 weeks duration is classified as chronic urticaria, which is further classified into chronic spontaneous or inducible urticaria has a more significant impact on quality of life due to recurrence and unknown etiology. Siddha medicine is having many formulations to treat kanakadi (urticaria), one among them is Vilva Ilai Kudineer described in siddha literature. 10 children those were attending Kuzhanthai Maruthuvam OPD with the symptoms of Kanakadi (urticaria) were recruited for this pilot study. All patients were treated with Vilva Ilai Kudineer -30 ml for 48 days. All the 10 patients were subjected into Urticaria Activity Score(UAS-7) before(0th day) and after treatment(48th day). Results were observed by analyzing the USA-7 Assessment scale. The p value is highly significant(p