Management of uterine fibroid with Siddha herbomineral formulation Nandhi mezhugu - A Case report

Management of uterine fibroid with Siddha herbomineral formulation Nandhi mezhugu - A Case report DOI: https://doi.org/10.47552/ijam.v15i4.4732Keywords: Fibroid uterus, Traditional medicine, Natural medicine, Non-surgical method, Nonmalignant uterine tumor, AYUSHAbstract The Siddha system of medicine finds a significant place among the traditional health care systems worldwide. This system offers tremendous clinical outcomes in treating certain disease conditions that are complicated and surgically intervened by contemporary medical systems. Fibroid uterus, which is a pressing global concern, can be well managed with Siddha medicines. The Siddha classical text Siddha vaithya thirattu indicates that the classical herbomineral Siddha formulation - Nandhi Mezhugu for the management of Karuppai vippuruthi (Uterine fibroid). The present case report presents a 48-year-old female with complaints of excessive bleeding in menstrual time (6 to 7 pads\day), dysmenorrhea, feeling of fullness in lower abdomen, frequent urination, low back pain, pain in upper and lower limbs and constipation. She visited the Reproductive and Child Health OPD, Siddha Central Research Institute, Chennai-106, in the month of December 2017. Her ultra-sonogram (USG)-abdomen revealed the confirmatory diagnosis of Uterine fibroid. The patient was treated with Siddha traditional medicine Nandhi mezhugu twice a day with palm jiggery. The treatment consisted of 7 days and a gap of 7 days for a period of 6 Months. During treatment, she was showing signs of improvement in her symptoms of menstrual flow and pelvic pain normalized after 4 months. The follow up USG abdomen revealed the successful outcome with absence of fibroid. The present case report supports the use of traditional herbal medicines in the management of Uterine fibroid. Downloads Published How to Cite Issue Section License Copyright (c) 2024 International Journal of Ayurvedic Medicine This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. The author hereby transfers, assigns, or conveys all copyright ownership to the International Journal of Ayurvedic Medicine (IJAM). By this transfer, the article becomes the property of the IJAM and may not be published elsewhere without written permission from the IJAM. This transfer of copyright also implies transfer of rights for printed, electronic, microfilm, and facsimile publication. No royalty or other monetary compensation will be received for transferring the copyright of the article to the IJAM. The IJAM, in turn, grants each author the right to republish the article in any book for which he or she is the author or editor, without paying royalties to the IJAM, subject to the express conditions that (a) the author notify IJAM in advance in writing of this republication and (b) a credit line attributes the original publication to IJAM.