A clinical study of efficacy of ‘shankhpushpi churna’ in the management of chittodvega w.s.r. to generalised anxiety

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Chittodvega is the term to illustrate the whole anxious state of the mind .Modern Psychiatry has coins the term generalized anxiety disorder as a group of symptoms of altered mood. According to our classics, various shodhana process described in texts in reference to manas vuadhi like unmad, apsmar and also they described various shamana chikitsa , in whch Charaka had mentioned use of these medhya rasayan in manas rogas like unmad , apsmar and one of the treatment principle of chittodvega includes medhya rasayan . Acharya Charaka narrated use of four plants as the medhya rasayan ,namely Shankhpushpi, yashtimadhu, brahmi, and guduchi. .using these line of treatment, shankhpushpi as in powdered form given for 28 days of 15 patients and observation and statistics had been made by changes in manas bhav like Krodha, bhaya, shoka ,dvesha as a negative emotions and Dhairyam, Harsha ,priti , viryam as a positive emotions by using gradation to each emotions .Observation made by regular followup and examination by using anuman praman . Keywords: Shankhpushpi churna, chittodvega, medhya rasayan, GAD Mishra Anupkumar Umesh et al