SUCCESSFUL AYURVEDIC MANAGEMENT OF SENSORINEURAL HEARING LOSS - A CASE REPORT

A 23-year-old female patient, presented with Hearing loss on right ear. The onset of the symptoms were 10 years back, were she met with an electric shock while she was in grade 8th, the patient only focused on her injured hand and was not even bother of hearing loss, thus she neglected it and did not take any medical opinion. Later she noticed hearing loss and the condition was becoming worse. She couldn\'t understand words while using phone in right ear, when she was in 10th grade. She now consulted an ENT surgeon, who suggested to undergo audiometric tests which confirmed the biomedical diagnosis as Sensorineural hearing loss while she was in grade 11. She never took any medicines. Later she approached our hospital. The ayurvedic diagnosis was Badiryam. The line of treatment initially followed was koshtashodana. So snehapana and sadyo virechana was done. Following Takradhara, vasti, shirovasti, karnapooranam and marsha nasya were planned. The severity of the symptoms reduced significantly and the quality of life improved.