Ayurvedic management of Alcohol Withdrawal syndrome- A case Report

Abstract

  In the world wide, Alcohol abuse creates a bad impact on the individual as well as the family and community. The most serious complicated symptoms associated with chronic alcoholism is said to be Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome. In AWS, sudden death is common. When a chronic alcoholic tries to stop the intake of alcohol suddenly, it leads to AWS. AWS includes the symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, sweating, headache, auditory, visual and tactile hallucination, delirium tremor etc. A 56yrs old male who is chronic and heavy alcohol for over 18 years abstained from alcohol for 3 days. Consequently, he started having palpitation, sweating and termors with the complaints of nausea, vomiting, reduced appetite, disturbed sleep, headache, restlessness, fatigue, constipated. He was treated in OPD with combination of ayurvedic internal medication and procedures for 45 days and is on follow up till date. Internal medicine such as chavyadhi churna, punarnavadhi ghrita, bhrami vati, ashwagandha curna and haritaki with milk is given. Externally the patient was treated with abhyangam, shirodhara, nasyam. The treatment procedure was done in OPD with selected ayurvedic protocol. The condition was assessed before and after the treatment with clinical Institute withdrawal assessment of Alcohol revised scale (CIWA-Ar) Scale