Abstract

THE CLINICAL EFFECT OF PIPPALI CHURNA WITH MADHU IN THE MANAGEMENT OF AMLAPITTA

Prof. Ram Krushna Panda, Dr. Sriram Chandra Mishra* and Dr. Akhil Nath Parida

ABSTRACT

Amlapitta (Gastro Oesophageal Reflux Disorder) is a disorder of Annavaha Strotas (digestive system) in which sourness of Pitta gets increased. It is generally considered to be one of the most prevalent conditions affecting the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. A study was conducted for 30 days. Out of the resembling cases of Amlapitta, 60 numbers of cases were selected. They were randomly divided into two groups as trial drug group (TDG) & control drug group (CDG) keeping behind parity in the Age, Sex etc. One group (TDG) treated with Pippali churna with madhu as trial drug whereas another group (CDG) treated with Tab. Famotidine as control drug. The observation made during the course of trial recorded systematically. In this study, it is found that, both the medicines were well tolerated having no patients force to discontinue out of drug intolerance. The Clinical assessment of results shows that the trial drug achieved similar benefit to control drug as regards subjective and objective parameters with Highly Statistically significant improvement in both.

Keywords: Amlapitta (Gastro Esophageal Reflux Disorder), Annavaha Strotas (Digestive system), Pippali churna, Madhu (Honey).