European Journal of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences

STUDY TO EVALUATE THE EFFECT OF ANUVAASANA BASTI (MATRA BASTI) AND PICCHU IN ADVANCED PREGNANCY ON PHENOMENON OF LABOUR

Dr. Sheetal Minhas* and Dr. Ganesh Sudhakar Bodade

ABSTRACT

The objective of prenatal care is to assure that pregnancy culminates in the normal uneventful delivery of a healthy baby without affecting the health of the mother. Although the women are working nowadays but they are having very less physical activities, so the rate of uterine inertia is on increasing side causing operative interference in most of the cases in spite of no cephalopelvic disproportion. For Sukha and Nirupadrava prasava Ayurvedacharyas have described well documented protocol i.e. Garbhini Paricharya ,so in this research, regimen during 9th month of pregnancy described by Acharya Charaka i.e. the use of Anuvaasana Basti and Picchu was studied. 27 Patients were given Anuvaasana Basti twice a week & Picchu daily with Balyam Taila (oil prepared with drugs of Madhuradi group) till delivery and the effect on phenomenon of labour was compared with 30 patients of control group. This clinical trial shortened the 1st & 2nd stages of labour by having good effect on ripening of cervix and stretching & relaxing of vaginal canal and perineum. The comparative study of results showed that the mean duration of 1st stage of labour in Group – I was significant as compared to Group-II, 2nd stage of labour was comparatively insignificant while 3rd stage of labour was highly significant.100% patients of trial group had spontaneous onset of labour and 74.1% patients were delivered normally without episiotomy. No operative interference was reported in trial group patients. Patients also got relief in different lakshanas like Shveta srava, Yoni kandu and Vibandha. This study should be carried out on a large scale as a long term project with hormonal study to evaluate if there is any effect of drug at hormonal level.

Keywords: lakshanas like Shveta srava, Yoni kandu and Vibandha.