AYURVEDIC MANAGEMENT OF LEUCORRHOEA (SHWETA PRADARA) THROUGH SHALMALI GHRITA – A REVIEW ARTICLE

Abstract

Gynecology is the medical practice dealing with the health of the female reproductive system literally means "the science of women". All women have experienced some short of vaginal discharge in their life span. White vaginal discharges along with the other symptoms like feeling of weakness, pain in the back, calves, loss of vital fluids, pruritus on and around the vulva, thighs and thigh joints etc. comes under leucorrhoea which is described as Shweta Pradara in ayurvedic classics. For white vaginal discharge the word Shweta Pradara was described in Sharangadhara Samhita, BhavaPrakash.. Shalmali Ghrita is one of the herbal combination which is preferably used in the treatment of the Shweta Pradara according to Yogratnakar.