International Journal of Ayurveda and Pharmaceutical Chemistry

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Authors: Subha Ganguly

The human skeletal system becomes brittle, due to loss of bone density, which can lead to fractures and a compressed spinal column, thereby affecting posture and resulting pain in the back and the spine with increasing age. With alarming conditions, it affects other functions and organs in the body, causing associated symptoms of osteoporosis, constipation, degenerative arthritis, low back pain, insomnia, bladder and kidney weakness, frequent urination and dental problems. The incidences are more prevalent in older women. Ayurveda considers this deficiency disorder to be dominated by the air humour of vata.

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Authors: Singh Neelam Kumari, Alok Singh Sengar

Most women suffer from an ovarian cyst in their reproductive life .The non-neoplastic enlargement of the ovary is due to accumulation of the fluid inside the functional unit of the ovary. In ayurveda the cyst may be correlated with Granthi for which ayurveda also describes the holistic approach of treatment. The present study describes a case of a complex ovarian cyst. This study revealed the Granthihar properties of some ayurvedic medicines viz. Kanchnar guggulu, Dashmool kasaya and Ashokarishta with its surprising result in ovarian cyst as revealed, after two months of treatment, in the sonography report

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Authors: J. K. Desai, P.J.Patel, P. P. Parekh, S. D. Patel

The present study deals with the physico-chemical parameters and effect of plant based coagulant, chemical coagulant and mixture of coagulants on water of Kolavada Lake, District Gandhinagar, Gujarat. Changes in physical and chemical parameters such as water temperature, transparency, turbidity, total dissolved solids, pH, dissolved oxygen, BOD, COD and total hardness, chlorides, alkalinity, phosphate and nitrates were analyzed. Changes observed in all parameters after coagulants treatment. But all parameters were not within the permissible limits. The results indicate that the water of lake may be used for Irrigation.

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Authors: Kaur Jaskirat and Chawla Ritesh

Acharya Vagbhatta (A.Hr.Su 4/22) explains that all the diseases are manifested due to forceful expulsion and voluntary suppression of natural urges. One of the main causes of lifestyle disorder is adopting western culture in daily routine which has reduced the time for humans to stay calm. Everyone is running to meet their goals round the clock which force them to suppress their natural urges and leads to generation of factors that can cause diseases. Constipation due to suppression of natural urge of defecation causes headache in many people which possibly results from absorption of toxic products or from changes in the circulatory system resulting from loss of fluid from the gut. To obtain some facts regarding the same a clinical survey of 50 patients with their hematological investigations was conducted to find out the relation between Vegavidharan and anemia and found that these are also one of the causes.

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Authors: Kaushal Arushi, Arora Ravinder

Of various gems, Pravala is widely used by the Ayurvedic physicians in their day to day practice of life. The use of Pravala for internal purposes and for preparing various formulations can be observed. Internally as medicine, it is administered in the form of Bhasma and Pisti for curing ailments such as Amlapitta, Netra Roga and Hridaya Roga etc. The drug is being manufactured by various industries and hence the product is widely available in the market. But pharmaceutically it greatly varies from industry to industry and physician to physician with respect to its quality. Moreover, in the market, it is available in two forms viz. Pravala shakha and Pravala moola. The former is costlier than the moola. Some of the clinicians claim that Pravala shakha is more efficacious as compared to Praval moola, for which there is no rationale explained in the classical texts. The quality and standard for this drug therefore, is a question in this scientific and advanced era. The parameters like organoleptic, physical, chemical, qualitative and quantitative etc. place key role, by which quality of any dosage form can be determined. In the present study, the Pravala pisti is prepared by triturating with rose water whereas the Pravala bhasma is generally prepared by bhavna with ghritkumari and subjected to puta. Both moola and shakha bhasma and pisti are prepared by same methods and analysed on parameters like organoleptic, physical, chemical which include loss on drying, total ash, acid insoluble ash, water soluble extractive, alcohol soluble extractive, pH etc, qualitative and quantitative tests. The results show that there was no significant difference between moola and shakha. However, the percentage of calcium, phosphorous, iron and magnesium etc. elements are more in Praval moola.

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Authors: Shilpa Gupta and Nand Kishore Dadhich

Ayurveda is the flawless ancient science of life; the word “Ayur” literally means life and Veda the science or knowledge. Ayurveda stresses upon the do’s and don’ts one has to follow, which favours the well-being of each individual to lead a healthy, happy, comfortable and advantageous life physically, mentally and socially. It also emphasis the adage- “Prevention is better than cure”. Ayurveda healing for women addresses the need to treat the root cause of feminine disturbance rather than accepting the myths that symptoms of discomfort, pain and emotional swings are normal throughout the life. It is the best healing method to treat the root cause of symptoms by treating constitutionally that is treating the whole person as an individual. In modern era,Premature menarche,Delayed puberty and some problems in the menstruation pattern prior to menopause are seen.. So, it has been tried to concentrate on the causes of such problems and provide a healthy citizen to the society who is free from all these diseases.