Abstract

Dr. Brahm Dutt Sharma*, Dr. Durgesh Nandini Sharma, Dr. Puneet Kumar Garg, Dr. Nitesh Vyas and Deepika

ABSTRACT

The behavioral problem like bedwetting, stammering, sleepwalking etc. in young children are quite common. Among these, bedwetting (Shayyamutra) is one of the obstinate problems. Enuresis can be defined as normal, nearly complete evacuation of the bladder at a wrong place and time at least twice a month after 5 year of age. „Shayyamutra? having psychosomatic origin. Enuresis should be differentiated from continuous or intermittent incontinence or dribbling. The bed is usually soaking wet in enuresis, compared to incontinence in which there is loss of urine without normal empting of the bladder. In most of case the chief cause of enuresis is behavioral and emotional factors. It can also due to urinary tract infection, food allergies, obstructive sleep, apnea, chronic constipation, etc. Ayurveda suggest importance of pharmacological as well as psychological treatment for the disease. A drug which is nervine tonic (psychotherapy) and able to increase bladder control and tone of bladder muscles with Grahi, Stambhana and Mutrasangahnia properties can be able to reverse the pathology of Shayyamutra.