ROLE OF AYURVEDIC TREATMENT IN MACULAR DEGENERATION IN OLD AGE PATIENT

INTERVENTION: Intervention1: Nasya Procedure with Nripvallabha Ghrita and Rasayan Ghan Vati: 1.Nasya‐Patients will be advised not to take food before Nasya, mild massage on neck, face, and forehead will be done followed by hot fomentation with steam. Then patient will ask to lie on a cot in a room and neck slightly extended. 8 drops of slightly warm medicine will be poured into each nostril with the help of Gokarna & patient is advised to inhale the medicine slowly. After this massage is done on neck, face, below ears and patient is asked to spit out the sputum coming into mouth. Kavala of warm water will be given. 2.Rasayan Ghan Vati 500mg tablet twice a day Intervention2: Rasayan Ghan Vati: 500 mg tablet twice a day Intervention3: a: b Intervention4: Nasya: 1.Nasya‐Patients will be advised not to take food before Nasya, mild massage on neck, face, and forehead will be done followed by hot fomentation with steam. Then patient will ask to lie on a cot in a room and neck slightly extended. 8 drops of slightly warm medicine will be poured into each nostril with the help of Gokarna & patient is advised to inhale the medicine slowly. After this massage is done on neck, face, below ears and patient is asked to spit out the sputum coming into mouth. Kavala of warm water will be given. 2.Rasayan Ghan Vati 500mg tablet twice a day Intervention5: Nasya: 1.Nasya‐Patients will be advised not to take food before Nasya, mild massage on neck, face, and forehead will be done followed by hot fomentation with steam. Then patient will ask to lie on a cot in a room and neck slightly extended. 8 drops of slightly warm medicine will be poured into each nostril with the help of Gokarna & patient is advised to inhale the medicine slowly. After this massage is done on neck, face, below ears and patient is CONDITION: Health Condition 1: H353‐ Degeneration of macula and posterior pole PRIMARY OUTCOME: CHANGES IN NUMBER AND SIZE OF DRUSENS AND THICKNEES IN MACULATimepoint: 45 DAYS SECONDARY OUTCOME: Changes in visual acuity ; Change in colour vision ; Change in Amsler grid test findings (metamorphopsia) ; Changes in fundus examination ; Timepoint: 45 Days INCLUSION CRITERIA: 1.Patients between age of 40 to 70 years. 2.Patients presenting with classical sign and symptoms of Pitta Vidagdha Drishti & Early to intermediate form of Dry ARMD (i.e, presence of drusens or pigmentary changes around the macula).