RAPID HEALING AND ANTIMICROBIAL EFFECT OF MRIDU PALASAKSHARA IN CHRONIC VENOUS ULCER- A CASE REPORT
Abstract
Venous ulcers are the wounds occurring most probably in the lowerlimb due to inappropriate functioning of venous valves or venous thrombosis. It is the most common ulcer occuring in legs in Indian population. As the pathology lies in sira and chronicity is inherently attributed as its nature, venous ulcer can be called as siraja dushtavrana. A 67 years old male patient with venous ulcer in left leg was admitted in salyatantra dept., Govt. Ayurveda College, Tripunithura in May 2019. He was given vranahara medicines internally and daily dressing was done with jathyadi ghrita. On assessment after one month, the rate of healing was found to be slow, pus culture and sensitivity was done and a bacterial infection making hindrance to healing was found out. Palasakshara prathisarana was done for 4 days with 3 days interval and after twelve days, his pus culture result became negative and significant healing of the ulcer was observed. After that he was given conventional management of vrana and complete healing occurred within seven days after that and the patient was discharged on 10th day after ksharakarma.
Key words: venous ulcer, siraja dushtavrana, palasaksharaReferences
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