Abstract

A BRIEF STUDY ON UDAVARTINI YONIVYAPAD W.S.R. TO PRIMARY DYSMENORRHOEA

*Dr. Bhagyashri Mahavir Khot, Dr. Kiran Shankar Singh and Dr. Bhrunali Prakash Gharpure

ABSTRACT

In today’s era dysmenorrhoea is emerging as a burning issue as the prevalence is increasing day by day. Even with improved healthcare system and better awareness among this generation, women are still ignoring this health issue and living with their routine life without any treatment. Allopathic medicine has analgesics, antispasmodic and surgery for its management but these have their own side effects and may lead to medicine dependency. In Ayurveda, the diseases related to female reproductive system are described under the title of yonivyapada. One among them is udavartini yonivyapada which can be correlated to primary dysmenorrhoea. The main clinical feature of udavartini is painful menstruation. It affects approximately 50-60% of women of reproductive age. Panchakarma therapy, especially basti has miraculous effect on dysmenorrhoea. Also ayurvedic herbo-mineral drugs offer significant treatment which is proven beyond doubt in solving the problem successfully. The aim of this article is to focus on the management of dysmenorrhoea according to ayurveda line of treatment.

Keywords: Menstruation, udavartini yonivyapad, primary dysmenorrhea, basti.