CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE(CKD) PATHOGENESIS IN AYURVEDA PARLANCE- A REVIEW!

Abstract

Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is a progressive disorder involving declining kidney functions over years. The disorder is associated with a broad spectrum of presenting features, including breathlessness, oedema, nausea, loss of appetite, weight loss, etc. CKD is highly prevalent worldwide. The solution of choice for CKD is either kidney transplantation or blood purification treatments such as haemodialysis (HD). Such medical procedure involves an arduous journey for the patients. Hence, such patients often resort to alternative medicines to improve their quality of life. Ayurveda treatment modality not only offers a good solution for the same, providing parallel support to HD patients, thereby improving their quality of life, but in some instances, it depicts auspicious results, thereby substituting the official medicine. Ayurveda caters to its vital principles, as they play a pivotal role in electing the treatment, hence an in-detail study to find the Dosha(biological humour), Dushya (affected tissues), Strotas(circulatory channels) etc., involved in the manifestation and progression of the disease, thereby formulating its pathogenesis is utmost essential because proficiently practised Ayurveda modality complying its basic concepts is capable of definitely yielding reliable & optimal results when applied for disease management.