Dr Alka Sharma, Dr Niranjan Rao
Vol. 8, Jul-Dec 2019
Abstract:
Healthy skin and a peaceful mind is blessing, skin tissue can vary greatly in symptoms and severity. According to present day life style, with different kinds of food i.e., Junk food, packed food, low nutrition food and environmental factors such as infection, it is leading to digestive dysfunction disturbance and its ramification in different organs of the body. Skin is the largest organ of the body. psoriasis is a common chronic, immune mediated disease of the skin it can have a significant impact on the physical, emotional, and psychological wellbeing of effected person characterized by erythematous, sharply demarcated papules and rounded plaques, covered by silvery micaceous scale. kushtha is bahudosha avsathajanya vyadhi , has tridosha involvement along with saptka dhatu as its dushya. Psoriasis may be put under the categories like kitibha , sidhma etc. according to different presentations. virechna karma is one of the shodhana karma, explained for it, as tvacha is a jnanendriya, thus by virechana karma indriya shudhi takes place.