EFFICACY OF KAPARDA BHASMA, A POPULAR AYURVEDIC DRUG IN THE MANAGEMENT OF AMLAPITTA (ACID PEPTIC SYNDROME)

Rohit Kumar Ravte*, Amit Kumar Dixit, Achintya Mitra, Jayram Hazra,
Loknath Sharma

ABSTRACT

Amlapitta is composed of two words i.e. Amla & Pitta. The term Amla is a special type of test similarity with sour test and pitta which is body chemical substance mainly responsible for the maintained of process of digestion, transformation. Amlapitta is a common disorder caused by vidagdha pitta such as avipaka (indigestion), amlotkalesh or tikta amlodgara (sour or bitter belching), hridkantha daha (heart throat burning sensation) and aruchi(anorexia) due to acid peptic digestion affecting more people in India. The disease was selected for clinical study to assess the efficacy of a commonly used Ayurvedic drug i.e. Kaparda bhasma. The criteria of selection were the signs and symptom of Amlapitta as maintained in Ayurvedic classical texts irrespective of sex, religion, occupation etc. The study material comprised of 10 Amlapitta patients from OPD of National Institute of Ayurveda, Jaipur. Patients were treated with Kaparda bhasma for 21 days and arbitrary scoring pattern was adopted for the assessment of clinical efficacy. The results showed that Kaprda bhasma is potent drug in the treatment of Amlapitta without any ADR. The result of the present study revealed the therapeutic use of natural product according to Ayurvedic principal and practice of Amlapitta. The effect of Kaparda bhasma on amlotkalesh is 50%, on sirovedna 75%, on antrikujana and angasada 66.66% , on avipaka 60 % , gorava 75%. The overall relief was 47.96%.

Keywords: Amlapitta, Kaparda bhasma, Ayurveda.