AN OBSERVATIONAL STUDY TO CORRELATE CALSSICAL FEATURES OF RAKT DUSHTI WITH PHYSICAL FEATURES OF BLOOD IN EKAKUSHTHA WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO PSORIASIS.

ANCIENT AYURVEDIC SAGES HAS DESCRIBED DUSHIT RAKT(IMPURE BLOOD) AS ONE THE PATHOLOGICAL FACTORS VARIOUS DISEASES IN WHICH MOST ARE CONFINED TO SKIN. THE DOSH INVOLVED IN THE DUSHTI OF RAKT(PATHOGENESIS) IS DIAGNOSED MANLY BY THE PHYSICAL FEATURES OF BLOOD THE ASSESMENT OF WHICH IS IMPORTANT FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF TREATMENT PROTOCOL. THE FEATUTRES GOING TO BE ASSESSED ARE:-

Classical feature

Modern parameter

|1.      Tanu

viscosity

|2.      Askandi

Coagulation time

|3.      Sheetal

temperature

|4.      Ushna

temperature

|5.      Cheersravi

Bleeding time

|6.      Bahal

Specific gravity

|7.   Varna

colour