A study on Vatha Gunam.

Since being the commonest disease in the society, number of suffers increasing day by day, the author has chosen the disease, ‘Vatha Gunmam’ for her dissertation work. The evidence of the disease ‘Vatha Gunmam’ is derived from ‘Yugi Vaidhya Chinthamani – 800’. The signs and symptoms mentioned in Yugi Vaidhya Chinthamani closely resembles with that of ‘Peptic Ulcer’ in Modern Medicine. Its increased occurrence in recent times is due to stress, strain and abnormal dietary habits. 20 Inpatients & 20 Outpatients of either sex were selected. They were administered with the trial medicines, Ayilpattai Chooranam 1gm B.D with hot water, during the whole study period. Ayilpattai Chooranam was chosen for this study with reference from ‘Agasthiyar Attavanai Vagadam’. The trial medicines were subjected to bio-chemical and pharmacological analysis. At the end of the trial study, the majority of the cases showed good results