CONTROLLED CLINICAL STUDY OF HERBAL SCELORASANT INJECTION OF APAMARGA KSHAR ON INTERNAL HAEMORRHOIDS (I0 & II0)

Haemorrhoid is one of the trouble shooter diseases in most tropical and subtropical countries. The preferred treatment for Io & IIo internal haemorrhoid is sclerotherapy, Rubber band ligation, Cryotherapy. Sclerosant agents available in market had more or less adverse effects like burning, bleeding, nausea, etc. which induces local pain, irritation, etc. As per ancient surgeons, Ksharkarma is well known specialised treatment for internal haemorrhoids. Apamarga kshara is preferred drug for the same, which had the Arshoghna properties. But result is not up to mark and had profuse discharge. Herbal sclerosant injection of Apamarga Kshara prepared in collaboration with Dept of Pharmachemistry, C U Shah College of Pharmacy, Santacruz, Mumbai and also animal study for acute toxicity and dose 100 patients of internal haemorrhoids were selected for the study and were randomly classified in to two groups of 50 cases each. The group A was treated with Herbal sclerosant injection & group B Inj. Polidocanal was treated with in standard dosage by standard sclerotherapy method. Both groups have shown highly significant results in relieving the symptoms of internal haemorrhoids. Herbal Sclerosant injection group 42% patients are completely cured, whereas in Polidocanal group only 20 % patients are completely cured. Hence Herbal Sclerosant injection seems to be more effective in internal haemorrhoids.