Infertility
It’s often defined as not conceiving after 12 months of regular sexual intercourse without the use of birth controls. Infertility affects men and women equally. The female causative factors include infrequent menstrual periods, ovulation disorders, pelvic inflammatory disease, endometriosis, uterine fibroid, PCOD, age related factor etc. Male causative factor include semen abnormalities, ejaculatory disorders,varicocoele,cancer etc.
Ayurvedic management of infertility is successfully practicing now a days and it has got wide acceptance. It includes shodhana therapies, uttaravasthi and internal usage of rasayana and vajeekarana medicine for both male and female partners.
Urinary disorders
Includes any diseases /conditions that affects kidney, ureter, bladder and urethra. The common diseases affecting are urinary tract infection, burning micturation, haematuria, kidney stones, urinary incontinence, cystitis, kidney failure , benign prostatic hypertrophy etc.
The general line of treatment of urinary disorders includes snehanam, swedanam, uttara vasti, virechanam, vasti and other internal medications according to the conditions of the patient.
Arthritis & Rheumatic Disorders
Arthritis is a joint inflammation and though it’s a symptom rather than a diagnosis, the term is often used to refer to any disorder affecting the joint. Rheumatic disorders usually affect joints, tendons, ligaments, bones and muscles. Sometimes they are called musculoskeletal disease. Its common symptoms include –joint pain, loss of movement in joints, inflammation (swelling, redness and warmth) in joint or affected area. There are more than 100 rheumatic disorders. Among the most common ones are osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, SLE, ankylosing spondylitis, psoariatic arthritis, gout, scleroderma, infectious arthritis , juvenile idiopathic arthritis, cervical and lumbar spondylitis.
Ayurvedic management for arthrirtis and rheumatic disorders varies depending on the specific disease or condition; however treatment generally includes the following – ruksha sweda , dhanyamala dhara, patra pinda sweda, jambeera pinda sweda, upanaham, avagaham , vasthi and lepam etc . |