<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family: Mangal;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language: HI" lang="EN-GB">A comparative study on the assessment of clinical features of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Pandu roga</i> and its subtypes <i>vis a vis</i> various types of anemia</span>

Abstract

<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family: " times="" new="" roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"times="" roman";mso-bidi-font-family:="" mangal;mso-ansi-language:en-gb;mso-fareast-language:en-in;mso-bidi-language:="" sa"="" lang="EN-GB">‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Pandu roga’</i> is a disease entity described in Ayurveda which bears great resemblance to the clinical picture of anemia and also has a lot of iron and other non iron containing preparations described for its management. Today <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">pandu roga</i> is equated with iron deficiency anemia and only iron preparations described in the texts are being used, leaving aside the other principles. So, in this study we aimed to explore for any correlation between the subtypes of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">pandu</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">roga</i> and different types of anemia by studying their clinical picture as presented in the patients; so that a background may be prepared for treatment application by future researches.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"> </b>D<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:" times="" new="" roman","serif";="" mso-fareast-font-family:"times="" roman";mso-bidi-font-family:mangal;="" mso-ansi-language:en-gb;mso-fareast-language:en-us;mso-bidi-language:hi"="" lang="EN-GB">iagnosed cases of various anemia (excluding anemia due to systemic diseases, drug induced anemia, etc.) of all age and sex were included and were then assessed to categorise the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">pandu roga</i> subtype and data was checked statistically. A definite correlation was obtained between the various groups of anemia included in the study and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">pandu roga</i> subtypes. Pre-dominantly <i>paittika pandu</i> features were observed in Haemolytic anemia patients, while <i>vatika pandu</i> features were observed in all deficiency anemia, especially the iron deficiency group and <i>kaphaja pandu </i>features were seen more in the Megaloblastic anemia patients.</span></span>