A Clinical Study on Haritakyadi Yoga in Tundikeri (Tonsillitis) in Children

Abstract

Children represent the future, and ensuring their healthy growth and development ought to be a prime concern of all societies. Children are vulnerable to malnutrition and infectious disease, many of which can be effectively prevented or treated. Child’s health includes physical, mental and social wellbeing. Most parents know the basics of keeping children healthy, like offering them healthy foods, making sure they get enough sleep and exercise and ensuring their safety. Children aged 5-15 years old are mostly likely to get tonsillitis, but it can affect anyone. Tonsillitis is a common infection of the tonsils. The tonsils sit back of the throat. Tonsils are the elliptical shaped pink masses of tissues on either side at the back of throat. They trap the germs and bacteria that enter through the nose and mouth, and protect from infection. A disease which is similar to tonsillitis in clinical presentation in Ayurveda is Tundikeri. Acharya Kashyap has mentioned symptoms similar to Tundikeri in Vednaadhyaya like Kanthavedana (fever, anorexia, lethargy), Kanthshotha (itching and inflammation in throat). Thus, in the present study Tundikeri (Pharyngeal Tonsillitis) is taken as the subject of intervention with the drug “Haritakyadi Yoga”.