European Journal of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences

EVALUATION OF THE EFFICACY OF AVIPATTIKAR CHURNA IN THE MANAGEMENT OF AMLAPITTA

Rohit Kumar Ravte*, Amit Kumar Dixit, Achintya Mitra, Jayram Hazra,
Loknath Sharma

ABSTRACT

Amlapitta is a common disorder caused by vidagdha pitta such as avipaka (indigestion), amlotkalesh or tikta amlodgara (sour or bitter belching), hridkantha daha heart throat burning sensation) and aurichi (anorexia) due to acid peptic digestion affecting more people in India. The disease was selected for clinical study to assess the efficacy of a commonly used Ayurvedic drug ie Avipattikar churna. The criteria of selection were the signs and symptom of Amlapitta as maintained in Ayurvedic classical texts irrespective of sex religion occupation etc. The study material comprised of 10 Amlapitta patients from OPD of National Institute of Ayurveda, Jaipur. Patients were treated with Avipattikar Churna for 21 days and arbitrary scoring pattern was adopted for the assessment of Amlapitta. The results showed that Avipattikar churna is more potent drugs in the treatment of Amlapitta without any ADR. The result of the present study revealed the concept of Ayurvedic principal and practice of Amlapitta in Ayurveda.

Keywords: Amlapitta, Avipattikar churna.