A CASE STUDY ON THE MANAGEMENT OF TAMAKA SHWASA IN CHILDREN WITH POLYHERBAL FORMULATION

Abstract

Asthma is a non-communicable chronic lung disease, characterized by airway inflammation, airway obstruction mainly due to muscle spasm, associated with edema and stagnation of the mucus, Airway hyper-reactivity to aerobiological and irritants, airway remodeling in uncontrolled asthma. Ayurveda texts have described five types of Shwasa Roga and among them five, Tamaka Shwasa (Bronchial Asthma) is one which is a “Swatantra Vyadhi (independent disease) having its own etiological factor, patho-physiology and management. It is mentioned as Yapya Vyadhi (palliative disease) in Charaka Samhita, while Sushruta considered it as Krichchra Sadhya Vyadhi (difficult to cure disease).Tamaka Shwasa is basically a disorder of Praanavaha Srotasa while other Srotasa are also vitiated. The present effort is intended to study the efficacy of such formulations in reducing the sign and symptoms of childhood asthma. A case of 12 year old male patient who presented features of Tamaka Shwasa was treated by internal Ayurvedic Medicine; Shwasahara Dashemani Churna showed marked improvement in cardinal feature such as breathlessness, cough, awakening in night etc. and some hematological Parameters, discussed here. After 8 weeks of Follow up no episodes of above complaints have been reported.