Abstract

A CASE STUDY: AYURVEDIC MANAGEMENT OF ARDHAVABHEDAKA W.S.R TO MIGRAINE

Dr. Suma T. L.* and Dr. Syed Munawar Pasha

ABSTRACT

Ardhavabhedaka is one of the Shiroroga (disorder of head) which can be correlated with migraine having symptoms like paroxysmal unilateral (half cranial) headache sometime associated with vertigo, nausea, photophobia and phonophobia. With the widespread use of over the counter medicines nowadays, the pattern of the disease has evolved and the medicine used, only temporarily subsides the symptoms, while the root cause of the underlying pathology remains untouched. Ardhavabhedaka occurs because of tridosha or vata dosha or vata kapha dosha. In this study, a 18 years old male patient was selected based on the symptoms of ardhavabhedaka. He was then administered with nasya with shadbindu taila for seven days, later shamana chikitsa (palliative medicines) with selected medications was administered. After completion of the treatment course, considerable improvement was observed in the clinical symptoms of Ardhavabhedaka.

Keywords: Ardhavabhedaka, Migraine, Shadbindutaila, Pravala Panchamrita Rasa.