Effect of Punarnavadi Guggulu in the Management of Premenstrual Syndrome – A Single Case Study

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