Ayurvedic Management of Raktaja Abhishyanda (Acute Conjunctivitis): A Case Report
1Harshal Kishor Patil, 2Ganesh Tejasvi S. and 3Dnyaneshwar Gadade
1,2Department of Shalakyatantra, Parul Institute of Ayurved and Research, Parul University, Vadodara, Gujarat - 391760 (India) 3Department of Ayurved Samhita and Siddhanta, Parul Institute of Ayurved and Research, Parul University, Vadodara - 391760 (India) Correspondence : dr.harshalgurjar@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
We report on a young man who came to us with angry red eyes that had been bothering him for about a week. He was 27, worked in a shop where dust was everywhere, and his eyes were burning, watering, and itching something terrible. After examining him, we determined this was Raktaja Abhishyanda - what modern doctors would probably call a nasty case of conjunctivitis. Instead of reaching for antibiotics, we tried something different. We put him on a traditional Ayurvedic treatment plan. First, we gave him Shadanga Paniya to get his digestion working properly. Then came mild purgation using Avipattikara Churna. For his actual eyes, we used medicated drops made from Shreeparnyadi Churna and applied Ushiradi paste on his closed eyelids. To clean his blood from the inside, he drank Bruhat Manjishthadi Kwatha twice daily. The results surprised even us. By day seven, his symptoms had dropped dramatically. Two weeks in, his eyes looked completely normal again. We checked on him a month later - still fine, no return of symptoms. Now, one patient isn’t proof of anything definitive. But what we saw suggests these old Ayurvedic techniques deserve more attention from researchers. Perhaps larger trials could tell us whether this approach works as well as we think it does.