A RANDOMIZED COMPARATIVE CLINICAL STUDY TO EVALUATE THE EFFICACY OF CHEDANA PASHCHAT DURVA TAILA AND JATYADI TAILA APPLICATION IN THE MANAGEMENT OF KADARA (CORN)

India, a developing country where majority of the population lives in villages and engaged in manual work and careless about their foot care. Chances of trauma is more common in these people due to ignorance or due to poor economic condition they wear improper foot wear and defective foot ware and poor foot care can lead to many diseases. Among them the common one is *Kadara.*Kadara is explained under “Kshudra Rogas” which usually occurs at the site of constant pressure. Acharya Sushruta has explained Lakshanas of Kadara as Keelavat, Kathina( hard), Granthi Madhya Unnata( raised in middle), Kolamatra( kolaphala ) in size, Ruk (pain), Srava( discharge)Kadara can be correlated to corn.

Corn is localized hyperkeratosis of the skin. It can be painful particularly when rubbed orwhen the pressure is put on the site. Corn has a deep central core which reaches to the deeper layers of the skin.Hyperkerotic lesions of the foot (corns and calluses) have been reported to affect 33-68% of people aged 65 or older. It is usually white/ yellow/grey in color and is common in females.Most of them are hard corns and soft corns occur in between the toes.Few preventive measures  such as soft shoes or soft pads at pressure point of the sole and treatments like local application of salicylic acid on corn, use of corn plaster and lastly excision of the corn. So we need a conventional method to encounter these problems more effectively.

So here an attempt is made to evaluate the efficacy of Durva taila application after Chedana Karma over Jatyadi Taila application in the management of Kadara (corn).