ROLE OF AYURVEDA IN THE MANAGEMENT OF ADVERSE EFFECTS OF CHEMO-RADIOTHERAPY IN A BRAIN CANCER PATIENT - A CASE STUDY.
Dr. Rajimunnisa Begam Shaik M.D (Ayu)* and Dr. D. R. Sunil Kumar
ABSTRACT
Cancer is a major illness and a leading cause of death worldwide, causing suffering of large population and global economic loss worldwide.[1] Cancer is primarily a disease of older age; finding less toxic therapies is a major priority. Current cancer therapies are less effective and exhibit toxicities which are intolerable in most of the cases. In cancer there is no perfect treatment available to kill the abnormal growth of the cells. Chemo-radiotherapy is usually done to kill these cells but these therapies having lots of side effects like nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, sleep disturbance, anaemia, alopecia, hepatotoxicity etc. which have a devastating effect on quality of life. Ayurveda describes cancer as inflammatory or non –inflammatory swelling and mentioned them as either Granthi or Arbuda. This manuscript should help clinicians and people suffering from cancer to combat serious chemo-radiotherapy related side effects through simple but effective Ayurveda remedies. Ayurvedic anti cancer medicines can be used as adjutants to improve the quality of life.
Keywords: Cancer, adverse effects of chemo-radiotherapy, role of Ayurveda, A case study.
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