Ayurveda management of Guillain-Barre syndrome: A case report
| dc.contributor.author | Tubaki, Basavaraj R. | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Tarapure, Shruti | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-11-18T10:11:58Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-11-18T10:11:58Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020-01 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) is a severe acute paralytic neuropathy with rapid progression usuallyoccurring post infections. Inspite of the active medications it is associated with severe weakness,incomplete recovery and pain. Long disease course can cause autonomic dysfunction or deterioration ingeneral health and life threatening complications like respiratory failures. Current case was diagnosed asGBS with motor, sensory & sphincter disturbance. Ayurveda diagnosis of Sarvangavata was made andcustomized treatment strategy was planned. First part of Kapha pitta samrushtavata (Vatadosha associated with Kapha and Pitta dosha) and then vatahara chikitsa were followed. Treatments were Koshtashodhana (gut cleansing), Abhyanga (massage of whole body with medicated oil), Ksheera parisheka(dripping of medicated milk over body), Shastikashali panda sweda (Rubbing of medicated rice poulticeover body), Anna lepa (application of medicated rice over the body), Shirotalam (trans cranial drugadministration by applying medicines over scalp), Basti (trans rectal administration of medicines) andOral medicaments. Panchakarma treatments were for 14 days followed by oral medications for next 151days. Intervention period of 165 days showed complete recovery of all the motor, sensory & sphincterdeficits however follow up of the patient was maintained for 437 days looking in to the sustainability ofthe outcomes.© 2018 Transdisciplinary University, Bangalore and World Ayurveda Foundation. Publishing Services byElsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). | en_US |
| dc.identifier.affiliations | Department of Kayachikita, Shri BMK Ayurveda Mahavidyalaya, A Constitunet Unit of KLE Academy of Higher Education & Research, Belagavi, Karnataka, India | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Tubaki Basavaraj R., Tarapure Shruti. Ayurveda management of Guillain-Barre syndrome: A case report. Journal of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine. 2020 Jan; 11(1): 73-77 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0975-9476 | |
| dc.identifier.place | India | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://imsear.searo.who.int/handle/123456789/214114 | |
| dc.language | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Elsevier | en_US |
| dc.relation.issuenumber | 1 | en_US |
| dc.relation.volume | 11 | en_US |
| dc.source.uri | https://dx.doi.org//10.1016/j.jaim.2018.08.004 | en_US |
| dc.subject | Guillain-barre syndrome Ayurveda Sarvangavata Vatavyadhi | en_US |
| dc.title | Ayurveda management of Guillain-Barre syndrome: A case report | en_US |
| dc.type | Journal Article | en_US |
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