Effect of Ksheer/Anuvasan Basti in Ulcerative Colitis (Raktaj/Shokaj Atisar) - A Case Study

Abstract

The Ulcerative Colitis (UC) is the specific and nonspecific inflammatory disease of large bowel1, confined to mucosa. The major symptoms of UC are diarrhea, rectal bleeding, Tenesmus, passage of mucus and crampy abdominal pain.2 As the civilization and materialization is increasing the incidence of ulcerative colitis is encountered more frequently in clinics, in modern medicine so many drugs are mentioned for treatment of ulcerative colitis like; Sulfasalazine having both antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties.3 Moreover these contemporary drugs have gigantic list of possible side effects. But, Ayurvedic treatment is a fine conservative and remedial method for the treatment of UC and not has any side effects. So there is a need to come across some other management which has less side effect as well as cost effective also. The purpose of our study was to analyse the effect of Ksheer Basti on Ulcerative Colitis, based on Samshodhan Karma, in which 40 years old patient, suffering from Ulcerative Colitis, from last 3 years, was given a treatment of Ksheer Basti, for 2 weeks and a significant improvement was found in diarrhoea, mucus discharge, bleeding and abdominal pain.