Arshas (Piles) in View of Ayurveda and Modern Medicine

Description

Arshas Piles in View of Ayurveda and Modern Medicine Ayurveda has immense potential to help in the solution of many challenging and unresolved problems of medical science. Ano-rectal disorders are progressively increasing in the society. By looking into the history one can understand that great saints like adishankara who revived the Vedic literature and famous rulers like Napoleon suffered from this disease. Arshas is considered as one of the Mahagada which occurs at marma pradesha. Few important causes out of a number of them are sedentary life style, irregular and inappropriate diet, prolonged sitting and psychological distrubances like anxiety and depression etc. these causes derangement of jatharagni which leads to constipation and other associated symptoms.

It has been mentioned in ancient classics, that impaired jatharagni produces all kosthagata rogas hence, arsha is also one. A constipated bowel is the devil’s workshop. Constipation increases the back pressure into haemorrhoidal veins to produce piles. The fast food culture bas again worsened the condition as these foods are devoid of fibre. The perianal skin is one of the most pain sensitive region in the body due to rich nerve endings. By the above causes even a mild form of disorders can produce great discomfort to the patient. It is observed that in the initial stage of the disease, most of the patients speicially female avoid consulting to the doctor and explaining their problems because they feel ashamed.

This makes bigg in coming days. In Ayurveda chikitsa of arsha mentioned in Bhishajya Chikitsa, Kshara Chikitsa, Shastra karma, Agni karma and Raktamokshana etc. The eminent surgeons and proctologists expresses that some complications arises in pre and post operative stages. Apart from surgery the latest techniques such as cryosurgery, rubber band therapy as well as infrared coagulation therapy etc are described. The number of techniques shows that the lack of universal acceptance of particular treatment, to avoid surgical complications and to achieve good results for arshas disease.