Abstract

*Dr. Swagatika Padhan, Prof. (Dr.) Sudeshna Meher, Dr. Manjusri Sahoo and Dr. Jasmita Priyadarsini

ABSTRACT

The health of women’s reproductive organs is essential for a healthy life. Even though pregnancy and childbirth is a wonderful process of life, a female body is subjected to both wear and tear during this and it takes a long time to revert back to normal state. Due to negligence or lack of awareness, a female suffers with many gynaecological diseases throughout her life cycle out of which prolapse of reproductive organ is one of them especially seen among parous women. Prasramsini is one of the twenty Yonivyapad mentioned in Ayurvedic classics. It was first explained by Acharya Sushrut and placed under Pittaja Yonivyapad but as no Yonivyapad can occur without the involvement of Vata dosha so it can be considered as Vata anubandhi Pittaja Yonivyapad. It is a condition in which there is displacement of Yoni from its place occurs along with vaginal discharge and difficulty in labour due to abnormality of birth passage. It may be co-related with first and second degree utero-vaginal prolapse. Nidana, samprapti, purvarupa, rupa, vibhedak nidana, upadrava, sadhya-asadhyata, chikitsa and pathya-apathya of Prasramsini Yonivyapad is described in detail in this article.