¹Dr.Amolshah M. Madavi,  ²Dr. D.B. More, ³ Pranali S. Giradkar,

DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.31142/ijahm/v10i3.02

¹Associate Professor Department of Sanskrit SamhitaSiddhant, Noble AyurvedCollege, Junagarh, Gujrat.

²Assistant Professor (Dravyaguna),Government Ayurvedic College, Osmanabad, Maharashtra

³PG Scholar (Dravyaguna),Government Ayurvedic College, Osmanabad, Maharashtra. 413501 

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Abstract

Bronchial asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of respiratory system. It includes symptoms like breathlessness, wheezing, tightness of chest, which mainly appears at night or early morning. Inflammation of lungs causes due to hyper-reactivity of immune system of lungs to the different allergens. In Ayurveda bronchial asthma can be correlate with the Tamaka shwasa. Tamakashwasa mainly cause by the aggravated Kaphadosa along with vatadosa. Acharya charaka has considered Tamaka shwasa as yapyaroga means patient have to depend on medicines for lifetime. There is no cure for asthama as per modern science, But many researches has proven that the herbal medicines are useful for disease control in asthmatic patients. The present is a review to show the efficacy of Shringyadi churna in the management of Tamaka shwasa (bronchial asthma).

Keywords; Tamaka shwasa, Shringyadi churna, bronchial asthma 

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