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A REVIEW ON ETIOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT OF AMLAPITTA
Akhilesh Kumar Verma*
ABSTRACT Ayurveda is one among the oldest health science. Nowadays due to faulty life style, diet pattern men- tal stress and strain healthy status of human being is in declining. Due to changing life style, there is tremendous increase in disorder related to mahasrotas (gastrointestinal tract. Amlapitta is one of the major disease which occurs in mahasrotas. Amlapitta is pitta predominance disease which is realated to Annavaha srotas & Purishvaha Srotas occurs due to mandagni and ama. When Amla guna of pitta is increased is called Amlapitta. Various acharyas has explained amlapitta as separate disorders but Samprapti of Amlapitta is clearly mentioned in Grahani chikitsadhyay while describing samprapti of Grahani Dosha. The basic principles of treatment are mainly nidana parivarjana, shodhana, and shamana chikitsa. Vamana and Virechana are mentioned for urdhva gati and adho gati of doshas. In modern science it can be correlated with Gastritis. Keywords: Amlapitta, charaka, Ushna, Katu, Tikshna. [Download Article] [Download Certifiate] |