PHAKKA ROGA; NIDANA, LAXANAS AND CHIKITSA: AN AYURVEDA LITERARY REVIEW
Aniruddha Bhopale*, Sadhana Babel and Sanjay Chitte
ABSTRACT
Kashyap samhita described kaumarbhritya as one of the important branches of ayurveda. Kaumarbhritya deals with the children diseases. Kaumarbhritya elaborated various principles related to the physical and mental well being of children. Phakka roga is one of the common diseases occurs in childhood period. Phakka defined as inability of a child to walk even after growing age. The Phakka resembles slothful movement associated with poor physical development & impaired psychomotor changes. Phakka roga are three types; Kshiraja Phakka, Garbhaja Phakka and Vyadhija Phakka. The obstruction in rasa vaha strotasa & nutritional deficiency resulted Phakka roga. Ayurveda described various lines of treatments for the management of Phakka. This article presented various ayurveda perspective of Phakka
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