CLINICAL STUDY OF HYPERLIPIDEMIA (FART-E-TADASSUM FID-DAM) AND THERAPEUTIC EVALUATION OF SAFOOF-E-MUHAZZIL IN ITS MANAGEMENT

*Ziaur Rahman, M. Y. Siddiqui, Mohammad Mohsin and Mursaleen Naseer

ABSTRACT

Hyperlipidemia is becoming a major public health problem now adays in industrialized world. Hyperlipidemia is usually associated with obesity, type 2 diabetes mellitus and metabolic syndrome that leads to Atherosclerosis that results in sudden death. There are many drugs in modern system of medicine to cure hyperlipidemia but having very adverse effect so it is need of time to cure the hyperlipidemia with a drug from alternative system of medicine having no side effect. According to classical text book of Unani medicine there are various single and compound drug that are to be very effective in management of hyperlipidemia Such as Muqul, Qurse Pudina and Saffof-e-Muhazzil etc. A Randomized single blind study was designed to clinical trial of Safoof-e-Muhazzil for evaluation of efficacy of Safoof-e-Muhazzil on Hyperlipidemia. Study was conducted in the Department of Moalejat, A.K.T.C Hospital. The protocol therapy duration was 90 days and follow up fortnightly.30 Patients were selected for clinical trial. Assessment of efficacy was done on the basis of objective and subjective parameters. The result of present clinical trial demonstrates that Safoof-e-Muhazzil is highly effective in management of hyperlipidemia due to its lipid lowering ingredients.

Keywords: Randomized single blind, Safoof-e-Muhazzil, Hyperlipidemia, objective parameters, Unani medicine.