A CASE STUDY ON CHITTODWEGA

Abstract

Anxiety is arguably an emotion that predates the evolution of man. Its ubiquity in humans, and its presence in a range of anxiety disorders, makes it an important clinical focus.GAD(Generalised anxiety disorder) is the most common psychiatric disoder characterised by Repeated,Persistant and unrealistic worry about life-events but it is different from normal feelings of anxiousness.The prevelance rate of Anxiety disorder varies according to the different age group as per the current DSM-5 criteria, only phobia and GAD are included under anxiety disorders,with weighted prevalence values of 4.2% and 5.8% respectively. For this avilabile Psychiatric drugs are having various adverse effect and produces the dependency of the drugs,for this integrated apporach is very essential, Ayurveda medicines are safe,cost effective hence here an case of chittodwega is sucessfully treated with Shamana medicine.