EFFECT OF APAMARG (ACHYRANTHES AASPERA LINN.) IN LEPROSY

LEPROSY is one of the socio-medical hazards. One who is afflicted with leprosy has got little scope in society as well as for the treatment. For the treatment because still such treatment is to be invented which can be fully relief having quick and certain action without much of the toxic effects. There are various handicaps in the field of leprosy research of which the main are our incapability of producing the diseaee experimentally and to culture the bacteria successfully. Really these are the responsible factors for the present miniature form of the leprosy treatment. Leprosy in India is very common. The disease is traceable upto vedic age which is placed to be somewhere upto 5000 B.C. India and Egypt are regarded to be the oldest homes of leprosy from where the disease started and spread.