Effect of Ashwagandha Kwatha Dhara in Anidra - A Case Series
Abstract
Insomnia also known as sleeplessness, is a sleep disorder in which people have trouble in sleeping. There are around 10% to 30% of the adults have insomnia at any given point in time and up to half of people have insomnia in a given year and about 6% of people have insomnia that is not due to another problem and lasts for more than a month. The typical first line of treatment are Sleep hygiene and lifestyle changes but is restricted only to the mild cases, Moderate or severe cases requires medications like sleeping pills, sedatives, antidepressants, antipsychotic drugs like Antihistamines, Benzodiazepines etc. The side effect, dependency and withdrawal symptoms of these drugs are not new to the medical sciences. On the antagonistic part Ayurveda can provide a safe and effective non interventional solution to it by Shirodhara a Panchakarma therapeutic measure. In this case series Ashwagandha Kwatha Dhara was used to see the effect on various criteria like Athens Insomnia Scale Hamilton Anxiety Scale, Hamilton Depression Scale, WHO – Quality of scale (Bref) and Ayurveda Lakshana and an overall improvement of 86.5 % was found in all these criteria’s which was found worth sharing to the medical fraternity for enhancement and its further appraisal.
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