ABSTRACT
Low back pain (LBP), now a days is very common and debilitating to the patients. It affects their whole life as they are not able to do proper work with this pain. According to WHO, Low back pain (LBP) describes pain between the lower edge of the ribs and the buttock. It can last for a short time (acute), a little longer (sub-acute) or a long time (chronic). It can affect anyone. LBP makes it hard to move and can affect quality of life and mental well-being. In Ayurveda, the condition resembles with gridhrasi which included under 80 types of nanatmaja vata viakara. In vata-kaphaja gridhrasi there is drowsiness, feeling of heaviness and anorexia may be present. In ayurveda the disease ghridhrasi treated as a vata vyadhi, which included mainly basti chikitsa as a shodhan karma and internal medicine as a shaman chikitsa. Eranda thaila is widely used in traditional medicine for chronic backache, sciatica, constipation, abdominal disorders, muscle aches, arthritis etc. This paper is written for presenting a case study of low back pain of a female patient who’s signs and symptoms were resembling same as that mentioned in text of gridhrasi. Matra basti with medicated Eranda Taila along with internal medicines showed tremendous results in this case study in the duration of total 17 days treatment which includes aamapachana, and matra basti.
Keywords: low back pain, gridhrasi, matra basti, Eranda Taila
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