The role of udvarthana on skin health

Abstract

Approaching towards modern life style, every person is conscious about his/her look and using number of cosmetics which are made up of chemicals and freely available in market to make their skin looks beautiful without knowing the consequence produced by chemical (Cosmetics) on the skin. To prevent such complication and to increase the beauty of one's facial look, we selected one of the ancient techniques of daily routine Udvarthana as a subject research to know the effect of Udwartana on skin health according to Samhita's as per modern life. Face is mirror, which perhaps reflects our individuality from others. Our face is a part of attraction and gives the image of our fitness hence application of Udvartana is done only on face. The results were assessed on manifestation of improvement in skin health, such as symptomatic changes after application. 30 normal individuals of age group 16-30 years were recruited in trial. Sample were assessed and evaluated on the basis of subjective parameters at interval of 15 days for two months. Selection of drugs for Udvarthana was done from Varnadi Gana in Astanga Sangraha Sutrasthana 15/88. Fine powder of drug was mixed with plain water and applied on face till gets dried before bath. There were significant changes in symptomatically criteria when calculated by Willcoxan's5 test. We got significant result in symptoms of facial skin in experimental group after two month i.e. p<0.05. The finding suggests that Udvarthana is an effective, safe, easy way for healthy skin.