An Experimental And Clinical Pilot Study To Evaluate The Antispasmodic Effect Of Alcoholic Extract Of Bhrahmi(Bacopa Monnieri) Capsule In Abdominal Colic.

Abdominal colicky pain is very frequently seen in many surgical conditions likes urinary Calculus, hepato-colicky, intestinal colicky pain, abdominal cramps, dysmenorrhoea. Abdominal pain is that you feel anywhere between your chest and groin. This is often referred to as the stomach region or belly. Main differential diagnosis of abdominal pain could be urinary calculus, appendicitis, Cholecystitis, Bowel obstruction, Pancreatitis, Chronic functional abdominal pain, Constipation. Most of the pain can be seen as spasmodic pain as there is smooth muscle spasm. In Ayurved there is no specific word for spasmodic pain but abdominal pains are referred as udarshula that most of the time is colicky in nature. One such very painful condition referred as if pain experienced as if death. Pain given by yama (God of death). Antispasmodic drugs used in modern science in the form of oral, intravenous & intramuscular drugs in the abdominal colic, but frequent use of NSAIDS & Antispasmodic drugs may lead to complications due to their ill effect like chronic kidney disease and moreover in chronic kidney disease the more use of analgesic drugs are contraindicated. Ayurvedic medications with shoolhara properties are mentioned in the ashmari chikitsa and Udarshula rogadhikar like Brahmi, sunthi, trivrut, haritak,etc are mentioned in samhitas.