Kushmanda Ghrita: An Effective Management for Apasmara

Apasmara is a disease which has a lot of importance since ancient time because it affects all the aspects of life of an individual either an adult or it may be a child. It is a disease due to vitiation of three sharirik doshas and two manshik doshas. The clinical features of Apasmara can be corelated with epilepsy in modern medicine. The disease epilepsy is featured about disturbed normal pattern of neural activity causes strange sensation, occasional convulsion, muscles spasm and loss of consciousness. The treatment modalities of Apasmara are of many kinds in which Use of medhya rasayana is a unique method of treatment described in Ayurveda for Apasmara. Kushmanda Ghrita is a unique Ayurvedic formulation recommended in the management of various psychological disorders mentioned in Astanga Hridaya and also in Bhaishajya Ratnavali. In this article an attempt has been done to rationalize the use of Kusmanda Ghrita in the management of Apasmara (Epilepsy).