Abstract
Diabetic foot ulcer is a serious devastating complication of diabetes mellitus (DM) when it involves deep tissues and bone which may require amputations. In this case report a 70 year old male patient presented with non healing ulcer of sized (3.5 *3.2) cm2 at dorsum of the left foot since last 4 years. The ulcer was on the dorsum having most movable part in daily activity so it was reluctant to meal by all means of conventional management. So patient consultant to Ayurveda OPD and he was treated with local dressing of Apamarga Kshara Taila till wound healing for 50days. Along with local dressing patient prescribed with Haritaki Churna 5gm at night with luke warm water and Punarnavashtak Kwatha 40ml twice in a day on empty stomach for 50 days. Inj. wosulin 12 units thrice in day and Inj. basalog 14 units at nigh were continued simultaneously as prescribed by diabetologist during the treatment. Complete wound healing was achieved within 50days with unit healing time 4.46 day/cm2. This single case report showed wound healing potential of Ayurvedic medicine in diabetic wound.
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