Abstract

Vd. Mangesh D. Malpe* and Vd. Tejas S. More

ABSTRACT

Ayurveda is a life science which not only deals with curative but also preventive aspects of the disease. Incidence of Vatrakta is increasing at an alarming rate. Vatrakta is a disease which is caused by vitiation of Vata & Rakta Dosha. Vata is vitiated by excessive swimming, late night sleep, stress, fasting, long distance rides on animals such as horses, camels, and Rakta is vitiated by the excessive consumption of Amla, Lavana, Katu rasa kshara, ushana, meat, curd, black gram etc. On the basis of etiopathology Vatrakta correlated with Gout which is mainly caused by increased uric acid level in the blood. Uric acid is the waste product of purine metabolism which is a component of nucleic acid. Uric acid gets crystallized and these crystals are deposited in small joints, tendons & surrounding tissues. A 36 years old male patient came to the OPD with the chief complaints of: pain in all major joints, pad-anguli shoth since last six months. The patient was given completely Ayurvedic medicines, leech application. Kaishore guggulu & Punarnava guggulu, Avipattikar choorna were given as internal medicine for 3 months.