A RANDOMIZED COMPARATIVE CLINICAL STUDY TO EVALUATE THE EFFICACY OF YAVADI KALKA AND TILADI KALKA AFTER JALOUKAVACHARANA IN THE MANAGEMENT OF DUSHTAVRANA WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO NONHEALING TRAUMATIC ULCER

Background: Among the nonhealing ulcers, traumatic nonhealing ulcers are one of a variety, and they are cate-gorized in Dusthavrana in our classics. In Ayurveda, regarding Dusthavrana in etiological factors, pathogenesis and different treatment modalities are elaboratively explained. Objectives: In this study efficacy of Yavadi Kalka and Tiladi Kalka application after Jaloukavacharana was conducted in Dusthavrana (Non healing traumatic ul-cer). Materials and Methods: This study was conducted at BLDEA’s AVS Ayurveda Mahavidyalaya Vijaya-pur. 40 cases of Dusthavrana (nonhealing traumatic ulcer) were selected from the OPD and IPD of BLDEA’s AVS Ayurveda Mahavidyalaya Vijayapur and randomly assigned into two Groups namely Group-A and Group-B with 20 patients in each group. Subjects under Group-A were treated with Yavadi Kalka after Jaloukavacha-rana while subjects under Group-B were treated with Tiladi Kalka after Jaloukavacharana. Results: Assess-ment of Severity of Pain, Itching, Burning sensation, Discharge , Tenderness, Size of Ulcer, Foul smell and Floor of the ulcer in Group-A showed 85%,95%,100%,80%, 95%,85%,95% & 100%, improvement respectively and in Group-B 86%, 100%, 84%, 100%, 100%, 95% 100% &100% improvement respectively. On assessing the overall effect of the treatment Yavadi Kalka after Jaloukavacharana showed good result with 96.57% relief while that of Tiladi Kalka after Jaloukavacharana showed with 91% relief. Conclusion: On comparing the re-sults of Group-A and Group-B, Group A has shown significant effect than group-B in above said parameters.