Clinical success story of Paneeya Kshara in the management of Renal Calculi - A Case Report

Abstract

Kidney stones the urological disorder, with higher incidence attributed to modern lifestyle. The sharp excruciating pain, burning micturition, hematuria are the symptoms that disturbs the normal routine of the individual. Radiological investigations such as USG, KUB findings are necessary for diagnosis and to decide the therapeutic intervention. Challenges encountered in management are multifactorial etiology, the agonizing symptoms, lack of satisfactory curative measures and recurrence. Many individuals reluctant to undergo surgery or other invasive techniques and they approach Ayurveda for the better results. In Ayurveda, renal stones are diagnosed as Mutra Ashmari and a wide range of medicine and detailed treatment principles are advocated. Usage of Kshara is widely recommended by many scholars and treatise. Here a young man having symptomatic pelvi-ureteric junction stone, was treated using these principles and appreciated reduction in stone size radiologically and become clinically asymptomatic.