CLINICAL STUDY OF VAMAN KARMA & STREE KUTAJ OIL IN THE MANAGEMENT OF EKA-KUSTHA VIS-A-VIS PSORIASIS

Skin is an organ of the integumentary system made up of multiple layers of ectodermic tissue, and guards the underlying muscles, bones, ligaments and internal organs. It is the first organ of the body interacting with the environmental agents like physical, chemical and biological agents. Variations in the environmental stimuli and natural ability of body to deal with these factors result in spontaneous remissions and relapses. Eka-kustha can be correlated with Psoriasis in Ayurvedic perspective. Eka-kushtha (Psoriasis) is an important disease not because it kills or cripples, since it does not, but because skin damaging is common and the lesions it causes seriously produce feeling of unsightliness, lowered self esteem and feeling of socially out cost. It has got its own social stigma in society also. Eka-kushtha (Psoriasis) is one of the common dermatological problems in India. Psoriasis is a common chronic genetically determined, inflammatory and proliferative disease of skin. Total 15 patients were randomly selected from O.P.D. and I.P.D. of Panchkarma P.G. Department, Rishikul Govt. Ayurvedic P.G. College & Hospital, Hardwar, Uttarakhand, for the purpose of clinical trials of present study. After full observation of therapies, it was found that no. of patient unchanged was 0, whereas, observed mild improvement was found in 2 patients (13.3 %), moderate improvement in 4 patients (26.67 %) and marked improvement was observed in 9 patients (40 %).