A Case of Ayurvedic management of chronic kidney disease with use of varunaadi kadha

Abstract

Chronic renal failure, a consequence of chronic kidney disease, trauma, immune disorder, and certain other conditions, is a growing public health concern worldwide. Often causing high health care costs but yielding poor outcomes, kidney disease is the ninth leading cause of death in the United States, and is growing in incidence in other industrialized nations. All individuals with GFR <60 ml/min/1.73 m2 for 3 months are classified as having chronic kidney disease, irrespective of the presence or absence of kidney damage. Ayurvedic text have also described various categories of mutraroga like mutraghata, mutrakricchr, ashmari and wide range of herbo mineral  drugs as therapeutic measures. This clinical observation was undertaken to notice the action of Ayurvedic drugs in the management of CRF on a 69 years old patient. Patient was advised Gomutra, Gokshur seed decoction  and Gokshuradi Guggula with Varunadi kwath anupan for regularly two months. Significant improvement in all subjective as well as objective parameters was noted.