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Conceptual Study of Dushi Visha in Present Era w.s.r. to Occupational Hazards and Agricultural Poisons
Authors: N. S. Gangasagre, Nilesh Salve, Shital Mirajkar, Subhashini Lahankar and Ravindra Pandhare
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Ayurveda gives more importance to prevention of disease and maintenance of health. As given in
ayurvedic classic text, a poison is a substance which vitiate normal functioning of dosh, dhatu,
mala. Thousands of harmful toxins are present in atmosphere that are ingested by the human
beings on daily basis. As described in our Samhita Granthas, Dushivisha is an intake of toxic
drugs which is less potent and remains in dormant state within the body for year together without
causing any major harm to body.
As we see in today's era workers working in lead industry like enamel workers, glass blowers,
printing works has typical chronic lead poisoning symptoms such as constipation, tremors,
menstrual disarrangements etc due to chronic exposure to lead which accumulates in body and
produces its ill effect like Dushivisha. Arsenic, copper, mercury chronic occupational poisoning
also happened due to long exposure of poison working in respective industry. In agriculture, the
chronic exposure to OPP, OCP, weed killers like parquet, chlorophenoxyacetates, chlorates used
to prevent infection in plants, being sprayed by farmers on daily basis, leads to symptoms like
dysphasia, oropharyngial ulcers, coughing, pain in abdomen, etc. These symptoms resemble to
Dushivisha like symptoms.
From this article, we may correlate the symptoms of Dushivisha with the chronic occupational
poisoning and agricultural field exposure to weed killers, which may be helpful to understand the
concept of Dushivisha. It is very important for us to realize the health hazardous effects of
cumulative poison and its proper time to time prevention as well as its proper treatment.