Randomized control study of Chandraprabha vati in Kashtartava with special reference to primary Dysmenorrhea.

Abstract

Due to alteration of food habits like junk food and changing life styles which increases responsibilities and stress of women in society negatively affects the health of women. Prevalence of dysmenorrhea is 70.2% . Many subjects experienced pain for 1-2 days during menstruation. The most common symptom in both dysmenorrheic and non dysmenorrheic girls during the menstrual periods was tiredness and another prevalent symptom was back pain. Females experiencing mild pain on an average presented for one and half day a month while moderate and severe forms of dysmenorrhea were experienced for 2.1±1.2 and 2.5±1.3 days respectively. Few girls sought pharmacological management (25.5%) and 83.2% depended on non-pharmacological methods. Only 14.2% had sought medical advice

Dysmenorrhoea is the most commonest Gynecological problem faced by women during their adolescence as well as adult life which leads to hampering of their routine work such as household chores. Most of the females are uncomfortable and shy to share these things with their family members and doctors and this is the way they suffer themselves by tolerating such pain so not only as a subject but as a need of society, the subject is needed to be studied in detail⁽⁴⁾⁽⁵⁾.