Abstract

A REVIEW ARTICLE – KAPHAJ YONIVYAPAD ACCORDING TO AYURVEDA

Tejal Sampat Shevkari*, Amit Dattatray Shinde and Sonal Suresh Wagh

ABSTRACT

A healthy woman is a promise to a healthy family & woman’s health status is a complex arrangement controlled by range of factors headed by her reproductive system. Infections pertaining to yoni are a burning problem for woman irrespective of her age & socio-economic status. For the woman it becomes very irritating as it affects her concentration & hamper her day to day life. It may lead to psychological upset, depression and thus affects woman’s personality. In Ayurveda gynecological disorders have found its immense importance in the field of medicine due to the fact that woman have that unique ability of giving birth. In Ayurveda woman healthcare is described in separate section under the name of yonivyapada, including majority of gynecological disorders. The complaints of kaphaj yonivyapad are yonigat strav, kandu, picchila strav, aplavedana, avedana [1]. It is most commonly seen gynecological disorder in woman of reproductive age. The ayurvedic treatment not only cures pathology in reproductive organs but also treats the woman as a whole with holistic approach, thereby improving her general health also. Before going to management of the disease literature of the disease should be known. Hence, study effort has been put forth to make a literary study covering almost all aspects of kaphaj yonivyapad as per Ayurveda.

Keywords: Kaphaj yonivyapad, Kapha, Vata, Yonivyapada, Vaginal discharge, Ayurveda.