Article: A CLASSICAL APPROACH TO ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY THROUGH AYURVEDA WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO PRAKRITI VIGHATA CHIKITSA

Article Category: Review articles

DOI: 10.7897/2277-4343.130358

Pages: 56-59

Author: Kushwaha Atal Singh *, G.S Athira, Keshwani Lajwanti, Jain Salil

Abstract: Ayurveda has its aim priorly in preventing disease rather than treating it. But there are some exclusive concepts mentioned in classics that can be very useful in treating today’s infections and limiting the severe side effects resulting from higher antibiotics. Antibiotic resistance and its misuse is the biggest concern of today’s scenario. Especially during covid and after that, people are taking antibiotics as per their own will and without a physician's suggestion, resulting in severe acute and long-term ill effects with its resistance in humans. Hence to overcome and limit the drastic unhealthy impact of antibiotic therapy, there is an extreme need to explore some classical concepts from Ayurveda in correspondence with today’s antibiotic treatment. Prakriti vighata chikitsa of vimana sthan can play an essential role in it, and this paper will work in this regard. The modes of action of antibiotics are either to kill the microbes or make them inactive by destroying their favourable environment. Prakriti vighata chikitsa is also the destruction of the normal Prakriti (favourable environment) of the krimi.

Keyword: antibiotic therapy, resistance, Prakriti vighata chikitsa.