A COMPARATIVE CLINICAL STUDY ON THE MANAGEMENT OF PSORIASIS W.S.R. TO EKAKUSHTA

Psoriasis is one amongst the most common skin disorders encountered in clinical practice. It is a chronic relapsing and remitting disease of skin causing social isolation, cosmetic and psychological embarrassment as well as difficulties in leading social life. Even though it can be considered as an autoimmune disorder affecting skin, it cannot always be treated as a somatic lesion, it is in fact multifactorial in origin and conditioned by various constitutional and environmental factors. Ekakusta is a Raktapradoshaja, vatakapha pradhana tridoshaja kshudra kushta. It bears a greater resemblance with Psoriasis. The current treatment modalities have their own limitations and the drugs have considerable side effects when used for a longer period. Therefore, there is a need for more comprehensive, economical and safe method of management of Psoriasis. Hence the present study was conducted on 60 patients assigned into two equal groups to evaluate the efficacy of shodhana in terms of virechana followed by Guggulu tiktaka gritha shamana sneha and only Guggulu Tiktaka Gritha shamana sneha with the external application of kutajasuryapaki taila in the management of Ekakusta w.s.r to Psoriasis.