TY - JOUR AU - MD Haidar, AU - Md Tanzil Ansari, PY - 2021/03/10 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - ROLE OF KATI BASTI AND PATRA POTTALI SWEDA IN THE MANAGEMENT OF GRIDHRASI- A CASE STUDY JF - AYUSHDHARA JA - Ayushdhara VL - 8 IS - 1 SE - DO - 10.47070/ayushdhara.v8i1.691 UR - https://ayushdhara.in/index.php/ayushdhara/article/view/691 SP - 3116-3120 AB - <p>The modern busy lifestyle of these days leads to several lifestyle disorders. Sciatica is one of the locomotory disorder occurs due to improper sitting posture, heavy weight lifting, stress injury and trauma to the spine. This disease became a great concern to the working people. Sciatica can be correlated with <em>Gridhrasi</em> in Ayurveda which is characterized as <em>Ruk</em> (pain), <em>Stambha</em> (stiffness), tingling sensation and numbness of lower limb. <em>Gridhrasi</em> is a type of <em>Vatavyadhi</em> mentioned in Ayurveda classics. Ayurveda through its advance treatment i.e. <em>Panchakarma</em> (Bio purification) eliminates the causative factors for disease. A male patient presented with signs and symptoms of <em>Gridhrasi</em> (sciatica) and MRI report suggesting of disc diffuse and disc protrusion and mild thecal compression. So In the present single case study patient was treated with <em>Patra</em> <em>pottali</em> <em>sveda</em> and <em>Kati</em> <em>basti</em> with some oral medicine. Both the therapies were effective in relieving symptoms like pain, stiffness, pricking sensation and numbness of leg.</p> ER -