“A Randomized Controlled Clinical Study to Evaluate The Efficacy Of Bilwadi Kwath In management of Medovruddhi w s.r. to Hyperlipidemia

Now-a-days, the evolution of technology has reached a point, where pretty much anything is available at the one touch. Machines and smart gadgets have replaced manual labour . People have started preferring packed & junk food to fresh, home-cooked meals. But, this Modern life-style coming at a price and a relatively crucial one as that is ‘Health’, Which causes many serious mental and physical diseases like Hyperlipidemia , Diabetes mellitus, Hypertension, Coronary heart disease etc.

The Worldwide prevalence of ‘Hyperlipidemia’ is about 39,000 per 1,00,000 patients. The matter of fear is, as per the opinion of National Commission on Macroeconomics and Health (NCMH), a Government of India undertaking, there would be around 62 million patients with CAD (Coronary Artery Disease) due to ‘Hyperlipidemia’ by 2015 in India. According to GHO (Global Health Observatory) data of WHO, globally a third of Ischemic Heart Disease is attributed to High cholesterol.

As per the scientific description, an elevated concentration of Triglycerides with Cholesterol in Fasting Plasma is called ‘Hyperlipidemia’, which causes by the accumulation of large Lipo-protein particles, contain both Triglycerides and Cholesteryl Esters. Further, which divide into Primary and Secondary types. Primary Lipid-disorders are usually inherited, whereas Secondary acquired as a result of other medical-disorders, such as Hypothyroidism, Chronic Liver Diseases, Type-II Diabetes Mellitus,Nephrotic Syndrome and reactions due to excessive intake of some drugs (for e.g. Steroids or Thiazide group drugs etc.).

Lipids and Lipo-protein abnormalities are as a modifiable risk factors for Coronary Heart Diseases because of their influence on Atherosclerosis.

Under the management of Hyperlipidemia many drugs are famous in Modern medicine like Statins (Atorvastatin, Rosuvastatin etc.), Gemifibrozil, Ezetimibe, Benzafibrate etc., but adverse point of it is it develops Side effects like Dyspepsia, Headache, Myopathy, Myalgia, Abdominal pain etc. Therefore, It is a necessity to find out some human health friendly and cost-wise cheap formulations to eradicate this disease.

The basic causative factor behind Hyperlipidemia is ‘Diet’, rich in ‘Saturated Fat’ according to Modern medicine. While according to Ayurvedic terminology, food articles having properties like Madhura Rasa and Guru, Snigdha, pichchil or Abhishyandi gunas in higher percentage leads to Medovruddhi and can be correlated to hyperlipidemia.

The all above scenario encouraged us(Guide and me) to invent the new and safe Polyherbal drug ‘Bilwadi kwath’.The reason behind it is, the dravyas under this yog have ‘Tikta’ Rasas, ‘Ushna’ Viryas as well as ‘Katu’ Vipakas will definitely lead to expected Sampraptibhanga (break of pathophysiology) by their specific mode of action.