A COMPARATIVE STUDY TO EVALUATE THE EFFICACY OF PATOLADI YOGA GHRITA PICHU AND DHANWADI GHRITA PICHU IN THE MANAGEMENT OF PARIKARTIKA WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO ACUTE FISSURE-IN-ANO

Dr. S. Tameem Ansari*, Dr. Shivalingappa J. Arakeri, Dr. Mohasin Kadegaon and Dr. Geetanjali Hiremath

ABSTRACT

Acharya Sushruta is known as Father of Surgery. The branch Shalyatantra gained more popularity during Sushruta’s period and the content of Sushruta samhita is mainly surgery. The disease Parikartika is considered as the complications of some diseases or procedures mainly as a vaidyakrita vyapat where pain considered as main feature. Parikartika can be correlated to Fissure-In-Ano. About 30-40% of the population suffers from proctologic pathologies at least once in their lives and incidence is 1 in 350. Pichu is one of the proven medical management for Acute Fissure-In-Ano. A randomized clinical comparative study was conducted on 40 patients of Parikartika were selected from OPD and IPD of Shalya Tantra of Taranath Government Ayurvedic Medical College & Hospital, Ballari. They were divided in to two groups. Patients of Group A were treated with pichu of Patoladi yoga ghrita and Group B with Dhanwadi ghrita. In the present study, the effect of treatment in both the groups showed statistically highly significant, and Non-significant in between two groups. Overall results of treatment in Group A are 81.8% and Group B is 91.9%. Patoladi yoga ghrita Pichu is less efficacious than Dhanwadi ghrita Pichu in the management of Parikartika with special reference to Fissure-In-Ano.

Keywords: Parikartika, Acute Fissure-In-Ano, Patoladi Yoga Ghrita, Dhanwadi ghrita, Pichu.