A COMPARATIVE STUDY TO EVALUATE THE EFFICACY OF ROPANA TAILA AND JATYADI TAILA ON EPISIOTOMY WOUND
*Dr. Shweta C. Dindur and Dr. Sunita Siddesh
ABSTRACT
Ensuring healthy and safe motherhood with utmost care rendered to every women is the outright responsibility of an Obstetrician. Episiotomy is performed almost as routine in cases of vaginal delivery to cut short the 2nd stage of labour and to prevent irregular tears. Yoniprasarana[1] explained in our classics can be achieved through medicaments or surgical procedures like Utkartana Karma[2] are beneficial in this regard. The wound thus formed after an Episiotomy[3] is associated with immense pain and discomfort and seeks appropriate medical care and attention. If ignored it may lead to various Puerperal infections that are costly in terms of delayed mother infant interaction, lactation difficulties and prolonged hospital stay. Hence the present study was conducted to ensure faster and healthy healing of the Episiotomy wound by utilizing Ropana Taila[4] as trial drug. The efficacy of the drug was compared with Jatyadi Taila[5] which is a very well-known formulation advised for vrana.
Keywords: Utkartana, Episiotomy Wound, RopanaTaila, JatyadiTaila, Vrana.
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