EFFECT OF PUNARNAVADI GUGGULU IN THE MANAGEMENT OF PREMENSTRUAL SYNDROME – A SINGLE CASE STUDY Authors: Rathore M And Karkare M*
ABSTRACT
Premenstrual Syndrome is an entity about which people are not much aware. No too much
studies have been yet done for this particular condition. Women deals with this condition
very casually. Menstruation plays an important role in women’s reproductive life to get a
healthy progeny. Any deviation from normalcy, indicative of any abnormality in the
reproductive cycle causes a great impact on the quality of a woman’s physical, emotional,
social and reproductive life. Premenstrual Syndrome is the cyclical occurance of certain
symptoms just prior to menses in the luteal phase of the cycle, which get resolved
spontaneously on the onset of menses or just after 2 to 3 days of menses. The symptoms do
not reappear within the next 13 days or before the luteal phase. A wide range of symptoms
occurs in PMS. In this study “Punarnavadi Guggulu” was given for Premenstrual Syndrome,
which is a combination of mainly 5 drugs namely Punarnava, Devdaru, Guduchi, Haritaki,
Guggulu, and Erand Tail as bhawana dravya. Diagnosis of PMS was confirmed by the
complaints described by the patients and scoring was done with the help of a screening tool
(based on PMTS-OR scale). Assessment was done before treatment and after the completion
of observational cycle. The patient had a pre-intervention score of 40 which was a severe
grade of PMS. After the intervention and the observation period, she had a score of 0
corresponding to doubtful or absent PMS with 100% relief. The patient thus had complete cure in PMS. In present study, it was observed that Punarnavadi Guggulu has provided
significant relief in all the symptoms of Premenstrual Syndrome.
Keywords: Punarnavadi Guggulu, PMS, Premenstrual Syndrome, Severity, PMDD, Emotional
Symptoms, Cognitive Symptoms. PMTS-OR scale Publication date: 05/03/2022 https://ijbpas.com/pdf/2022/March/MS_IJBPAS_2022_MARCH_SPCL_1001.pdfDownload PDFhttps://doi.org/10.31032/IJBPAS/2022/11.3.1001