A CLINICAL STUDY OF MUTRASHMARI WSR TO UROLITHIASIS AND THE EFFECT OF ASHMABHEDANADI YOGA

Mutrashmari was considered as one among the Astamahagadas by our Acharyas. It is one of the most important disease of Mutravaha sroto vikaras where both the medicinal and surgical treatments are advised and agreed upon by all the classical texts. In Contemporary sciences it is correlated with urolithiasis and now a days, due to food and life style variations it has become a global problem varying its incidence as per geographical distribution, sex and age group. Inspite of surgical intervention in large number of cases the disease has found its reccurrence. For this constant efforts are being made to evolve an effective treatment as well as prevention of recurrence of Urinary calculi. In the present study an effort was made to find the efficacy of “Ashmabhedanadi yoga”. In this study, 30 patients with diagnosis of urolithiasis were are randomly selected and given trial drug for 60 days. The subjects were asked for follow up once in fifteen days for consecutive 2 months. After completion of study the results were assessed basing on percentage of relief before and after treatment basing on symptomatic relief and ultrasonography. Statistically significant improvement was observed with P-value < 0.001. Hence the study revealed that the Ashmabhedanadi yoga is an effective drug in the management of Mutrashmari.