COMPARATIVE CLINICAL STUDY OF AMRABEEJ HARITAKI CHURNA LEPA AND NIMBA PATRA CHURNA LEPA IN DARUNAKA

Abstract

Dandruff is a common scalp disorder affecting almost half of the population of any gender. Those affected by dandruff find that it can cause self – esteem problem. It of-ten causes itching, flakiness. Also damages the face skin. According to Ayurveda dandruff may be correlated with Darunaka. For producing this disease kapha and vata are respon-sible. Amrabeej – Haritaki churna with godugdha lepa plays a significant role in darunaka, mentioned in Samhitas. Haritaki (Terminalia chebula) has vata-kaphaghna and Amrabeej (Mangifera indica) has kaphaghna properties. Both drugs also have krumighna property. Godugdha gives snigdhatva by its laghu, sara, snigdha guna. Because of this prop-erties of dravyas got excellent result in patient of darunaka. In clinical study 60 patients of darunaka were selected randomly.