Yauvana Pidika and its Ayurvedic Treatment

Dr. Sandeep Tongale; Dr. Sandeep Tongale

doi:10.21760/jaims.v6i01.1213

Dr. Sandeep Tongale Post Graduate Scholar, Dept. of Kayachikitsa, BLDE Association’s AVS Ayurveda Mahavidhyalaya, Vijayapura, Karnataka, INDIA.
Dr. Sandeep Tongale Post Graduate Scholar, Dept. of Kayachikitsa, BLDE Association’s AVS Ayurveda Mahavidhyalaya, Vijayapura, Karnataka, INDIA.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21760/jaims.v6i01.1213

Keywords: Acne, Comedones, Yauvana Pidika, Kshudra Roga, Mukha Dushika

Abstract

Acne (Yauvana Pidika) is an inflammation of the pilosebaceous units of certain body area (face, trunk, rarely buttocks) that occurs most frequently in adolescence and manifest itself as comedones, papulopustules or nodules and cysts pitted depressed or hypertrophic scars may follow all types but especially nodulocystic acne and acne conglobata. It can be correlated with Yauvana Pidika in Ayurveda. The diseases in which the Pitika are developed especially on the face of young persons (adolescents) are known as Yauvana Pidika (Tarunyapitika). Yauvana Pidika is very commonly observed disease, which has been described as Kshudra Roga in classics. It is also called as Mukh Dushika. Various Systemic and local treatment are indicated in Ayurveda that help to cure Yauvana Pidika and also to regain the lost beauty and rebuild the personality.

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