A CLINICAL STUDY ON THE EFFECT OF MARMA THERAPY IN PRATHAMA PATALAGATA TIMIRA WSR MYOPIA

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Bharti Lotika Sharma Gunjan Prasad Shishir Prasad Renu

Abstract

PrathamapatalgataTimira/Myopia is becoming a more widespread problem in general population. In India Prevalence of myopia is bringing into being 6.9%. In fact one of the objectives of WHO run Vision 2020 program is to control and treat uncorrected refractive errors. There are reputable and acceptable treatment modalities for management of Myopia. But indisputably there may be some pitfalls that give a way to Ayurveda to deal with this hitch. Ayurveda the science of life gives the way to live a healthy life with some preventive and curative therapies. There are many therapeutic options in Ayurveda both internal medicines and local procedures that are frequently used to treat PrathamapatalgataTimira. Usually such patients are diagnosed because of the asthenopic symptoms they complaint like headache, eyestrain etc. So here in this study, the hidden treasure of Ayurveda Marma Therapy was selected for management of PrathamapatalgataTimira/simple myopia. An open clinical trial was planned for 20 patients presenting with clinical features of PrathamapatalgataTimira/ simple myopia and Marma therapy was done. On assessment of the selected criteria significant results were found in subjective parameters like eyestrain, headache, watering whereas insignificant results were found in objective parameters like visual acuity, dioptric power and axial length.
Keywords: PrathampatalgataTimira, Simple myopia, Marma therapy.

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Lotika, B., Gunjan, S., Shishir, P., & Renu, P. (2020). A CLINICAL STUDY ON THE EFFECT OF MARMA THERAPY IN PRATHAMA PATALAGATA TIMIRA WSR MYOPIA. International Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biological Science Archive, 8(1). Retrieved from https://ijpba.in/index.php/ijpba/article/view/154
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