Review litrature ofayurvedic drugs used in amavata

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Life comprises of states of health and diseases. Medicinal Plants are aasuming greater importance in the primary health care of individuals and communities in many developing countries. Indian medicinal plants and their derivatives have been an invaluable source of therapeutic agents to treat various disorders. Today a substantial number of drugs are developed from plants which are active against a number of diseases. The majority of these involve the isolation of the active ingredient (chemical compound) found in a particular medicinal plants and its subsequent modification. Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic systemic inflammatory polyarthritis that primarily affects small diarthroidal joints of the hands and feet in a symmetrical pattern. Various medicinal plants like Erand, Guggulu, Rasana , etc. traditionally used for treating Amavata . This review is mainly focused on the concept of Amavata, different plant resources known to have antirheumatic potential. A more scientific investigation on these herbal resources must be performed to develop a potent, safe and reliable therapy Keywords: Amavata , Ayurvedic drugs, Formulations, natural remedies INTRODUCTION Amavata of Ayurveda may be correlated with the Rheumatic diseases, especially rheumatoid arthritis of the modern medicine. Rheumatism is a nonspecific term embracing a diverse group of diseases and syndrome which have in common disorders or diseases of connective muscles and joints. The main groups are rheumatic fever, rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosis and spondilitis, non articular rheumatismosteoarthritis and gout 1 Rheumatoid arthritisis a chronic, progressive autoimmune arthropathy and characterized by bilateral symmetrical involvement of joints with some systemic features 2 Madhavakar (700 AD) mentionedfirst the Amavata as a disease entity in Ayurveda and where Ama (Biotoxin) as well as Vata (biophysical force or kinetics) plays a predominant role in the samprapti (pathogenesis) INTERNATIONAL AYURVEDIC MEDICAL JOURNAL International Ayurvedic Medical Journal, ( ISSN: 2320 5091) (October, 2017) 5(10) REVIEW LITRATURE OFAYURVEDIC DRUGS USED IN AMAVATA Markam Jyoti 1 , Soni Neha 1 , Singh Rajesh Kumar 2 , Gupta Rakshapal 3 1 M.D. Scholar, 2 Lecturer, 3 Professor & HOD,Post Graduate Department of Dravyaguna, Govt. Ayurved College, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India Email: jyoti.markam 23@gmail.com ABSTRACT Life comprises of states of health and diseases. Medicinal Plants are aasuming greater importance in the primary health care of individuals and communities in many developing countries. Indian medicinal plants and their derivatives have been an invaluable source of therapeutic agents to treat various disorders. Today a substantial number of drugs are developed from plants which are active against a number of diseases. The majority of these involve the isolation of the active ingredient (chemical compound) found in a particular medicinal plants and its subsequent modification. Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic systemic inflammatory polyarthritis that primarily affects small diarthroidal joints of the hands and feet in a symmetrical pattern. Various medicinal plants like Erand, Guggulu, Rasana , etc. traditionally used for treating Amavata . This review is mainly focused on the concept of Amavata, different plant resources known to have antirheumatic potential. A more scientific investigation on these herbal resources must be performed to develop a potent, safe and reliable therapy Keywords: Amavata , Ayurvedic drugs, Formulations, natural remedies INTRODUCTION Amavata of Ayurveda may be correlated with the Rheumatic diseases, especially rheumatoid arthritis of the modern medicine. Rheumatism is a nonspecific term embracing a diverse group of diseases and syndrome which have in common disorders or diseases of connective muscles and joints. The main groups are rheumatic fever, rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosis and spondilitis, non articular rheumatismosteoarthritis and gout 1 Rheumatoid arthritisis a chronic, progressive autoimmune arthropathy and characterized by bilateral symmetrical involvement of joints with some systemic features 2 Madhavakar (700 AD) mentionedfirst the Amavata as a disease entity in Ayurveda and where Ama (Biotoxin) as well as Vata (biophysical force or kinetics) plays a predominant role in the samprapti (pathogenesis) INTERNATIONAL AYURVEDIC MEDICAL JOURNAL International Ayurvedic Medical Journal, ( ISSN: 2320 5091) (October, 2017) 5(10) REVIEW LITRATURE OFAYURVEDIC DRUGS USED IN AMAVATA Markam Jyoti 1 , Soni Neha 1 , Singh Rajesh Kumar 2 , Gupta Rakshapal 3 1 M.D. Scholar, 2 Lecturer, 3 Professor & HOD,Post Graduate Department of Dravyaguna, Govt. Ayurved College, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India Email: jyoti.markam 23@gmail.com ABSTRACT Life comprises of states of health and diseases. Medicinal Plants are aasuming greater importance in the primary health care of individuals and communities in many developing countries. Indian medicinal plants and their derivatives have been an invaluable source of therapeutic agents to treat various disorders. Today a substantial number of drugs are developed from plants which are active against a number of diseases. The majority of these involve the isolation of the active ingredient (chemical compound) found in a particular medicinal plants and its subsequent modification. Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic systemic inflammatory polyarthritis that primarily affects small diarthroidal joints of the hands and feet in a symmetrical pattern. Various medicinal plants like Erand, Guggulu, Rasana , etc. traditionally used for treating Amavata . This review is mainly focused on the concept of Amavata, different plant resources known to have antirheumatic potential. A more scientific investigation on these herbal resources must be performed to develop a potent, safe and reliable therapy Keywords: Amavata , Ayurvedic drugs, Formulations, natural remedies INTRODUCTION Amavata of Ayurveda may be correlated with the Rheumatic diseases, especially rheumatoid arthritis of the modern medicine