Integrative Ayurvedic Treatment for Vascular Atherosclerotic Disease: Namely, Coronary Disease, Deep Vein Thrombosis and Cerebro Vascular Accident-Embolic Stroke

Cardiovascular disease is the third highest cause of mortality world over. Atherosclerosis as an underlying vascular disease, leads to heart diseases, cerebral stroke and deep vein thrombosis. Ayurvedic formulations have shown beneficial results on such patients previously. This pragmatic, single centric, double blind, placebo controlled, two arm clinical trial was conducted on randomly assigned 144 patients, suffering from symptoms associated with atherosclerosis at SKNMC &GH, Pune. Pre and post study evaluated the impact of proprietary ayurvedic intervention given in addition to ongoing hospital treatment. Intervention included proprietary ayurvedic multi-herbal formulation brand Suved capsule andcolostrum in brand Reimmugen capsule previously given to such patients. Results indicated intervention was well tolerated with no harms. Pre post three months intervention showed significant positive improvements in symptoms. Significant Clinical improvements in vascular status seen in Intima-Media-Thickness with Carotid Doppler investigation and in Cardiac function seen in Ejection Fraction from2 D Echo investigation.