AYURVEDIC MANAGEMENT OF HEAMORRHOIDS (PILES)WSR TO ARSHA

Abstract

In today’s world full of stress and unhealthy food habits along with unhealthy lifestyles make people prone to various diseases .Among which Hemorrhoids the most common one. According to the Association of Colon & Rectal Surgeons of India (ACRSI), around 5% of the population in India suffers from hemorrhoids at any time in life . In Ayurveda Arsha (hemorrhoids’) is the diseases which can be correlated with hemorrhoids’. The word Arsha, indicate the disease troubles a person like an enemy. Arshas is clinically an engorged condition of haemorrhoidal venous plexus characterized by prolapsed mass per anum, bleeding per anum mainly. In modern medicine the treatments for hemorrhoids are Sclerotherapy, banding, laser ablation, lifestyle modifications, surgical procedures like Haemorrhoidectomy etc. In Madhav nidan also explain that Arsha like trouble to life like an enemy . Acharya vagbhata also explains as it blocks the gudmarg and troubles like an enemy that mass called as Arsha. In sushsrut samhita all detail explanations of Arsha , types of Arsha treatment of Arshai.e- four type chaturvidha chikitsa ,Bheshaja (medicinal), Kshara Karma (caustic treatment), Agni Karama (thermal heat burn) and Shastra Karma (surgery). In present article we have tried to explain various aspect of treatment of Arsha for the convenience so that disease can be treated accordingly.