Navayasa Churna is an Ayurvedic medicine, in herbal powder form. Nava means nine ingredients. Ayas means Iron. This product contains 9 herbal ingredients with processed Iron Bhasma.  It is mainly used in the Ayurvedic treatment of anemia, skin and liver conditions. It is also known as Navayas Lauh

Navayasa Churna  is an Ayurvedic medicine, in herbal powder form. Nava means nine ingredients. Ayas means Iron.This product contains 9 herbal ingredients with processed Iron Bhasma.  It is mainly used in the Ayurvedic treatment of anemia, skin and liver conditions. It is also known as Navayas Lauh

Home Made Ingredients of Navayasa Churna

It is prepared from 10 grams of each of

  • Trikatu – Ginger, Pepper, Long pepper
  • Triphala – Amla (Phyllanthus emblica), Haritaki – Terminalia chebula, Vibhitaki (Terminalia bellirica)
  • Musta – Cyperus rotundus
  • Vidanga – Embelia ribes
  • Chitraka – Plumbago zeylanica
  • 90 grams of Lauha bhasma – Processed Iron Bhasma.

Indications of Navayasa Churna

  • It is used in the Ayurvedic treatment of Anemia,
  • Heart diseases,
  • Skin diseases,
  • Piles and Jaundice.
  • Effective in dropsy, dyspepsia, loss of appetite and diabetes.
  • Doctors also prescribe this for the treatment of Obesity, weight loss.

Dosage of Navayasa Churna

  • 1 gram along with honey, hot water, boiled buttermilk or ghee, once or twice daily after food or as advised by Ayurvedic doctor.
  • 250 mg – 500 mg once or twice a day before or after food or as directed by Ayurvedic doctor. It is usually administered along with honey, ghee, milk.

Saptamritha Lauha and patients of B Group in similar number were subjected to Yoga therapy.

Inclusion criteria

  1. Chief complaints
    • Blurring (dimness) of distant vision
    • Difficulty in changing the focus from one distance to another.
  2. Associated symptoms
    • Head ache
    • Pain in the eye
    • Watering of the eye
    • Eye strain
    • Heaviness of the eye.
  3. Patient having myopia with refractive index up to – 6D.

Criteria for diagnosis

The patients were interrogated and examined in accordance with performa. Personal history and family history, general, routine and systemic examination was carried out to rule out other associated diseases.

  • Examination of Visual Acuity (V.A.) (testing with pin hole aperture in cases having reduction in V.A.)
  • Retinoscopy
  • Post-mydriatic test or subjective verification of refraction for confirming diagnosis
  • The symptoms mentioned in the text books of ophthalmology were considered
  • Routine examination of blood, urine and stool.

Exclusion criteria

  • Patients having systemic disease e.g. diabetes mellitus or any endocrine diseases, hypertension, rheumatoid arthritis or other arthritic conditions, rheumatic heart disease
  • Patients below 8 years and above 30 years
  • Patients suffering from infectious diseases e.g. tubercular infection, viral; bacterial or fungal conjunctivitis, trachoma and blepharitis
  • Congenital myopia and pathological myopia
  • Patients having refractive index more than – 6D
  • Myopia associated with other ocular diseases such as cataract, glaucoma, etc., and other refractive errors such as hypermatropia.

Parameters for assessment

Patients fulfilling the diagnostic criteria were admitted to analysis by opting following assessment criteria:

  1. For assessment of blurring of distant vision the visual acuity and diopteric power were tested. For assessment of V.A. was done as adopted by Kaith et al. and the dioptric power of the patients were given score for categorizing as below:
    • Diopteric power grading
      • Normal : 0D
      • Mild : 0-2D
      • Moderate : 2-4D
      • Severe : 4-6D
  2. The following symptoms were given score as below:
    1. Headache
      • No headache – 0
      • Occasional dull aching pain (Mild) – 1
      • Off and on headache that interferes with routine work; but bearable (Moderate) – 2
      • Severe headache experienced often and requires analgesics (Severe) – 3.
    2. Watering of the eye
      • No watering of eye – 0
      • Slight watering of eye; on strain (Mild) -1
      • Off and on watering of eye even without any strain needs hanker chief at the interval of 3 or more h (Moderate) – 2
      • Excess irritable watering of eye require frequent use of handkerchief (Severe) – 3.
    3. Heaviness in eye
      • No heaviness in eyes – 0
      • Patient complaints of heaviness in eyes on reading/writing more than 3 h and subsides after rest to eyes or sleep (Mild) – 1
      • Patient complaints of heaviness in eyes on reading/writing less than 3 h but more than 1 h and subsides an rest to eyes or after sleep (Moderate) – 2
      • Heaviness even in reading less than 1 h and interfering with routine work (Severe) – 3.
    4. Eye strain
      • No eye strain – 0
      • Occasional eye strain on reading (Mild) – 1
      • Off and on eye strain on reading (Moderate) – 2
      • Eye strain continuous even without reading (Severe) – 3.
    5. Pain in the eye
      • No pain in the eye at all – 0
      • Occasional pain on reading/writing sustains more than 1 h (Mild) – 1
      • Pain in the eye on reading/writing sustains less than 1 h (Moderate) – 2
      • Continuous pain in the eye even without reading/writing (Severe) – 3.
  3. Overall effect of therapy on clinical symptoms was assessed by grading the symptoms as below:

The graded values were later totally and individually scored and assessed statistically to find out the rate of effect of the treatment. The age, sex, occupation, dietary habits, socio economic status, Prakriti of the patient, reading habit, sleep pattern, recreational history were also recorded and assessed statistically.

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The effect of the treatment in each group was assessed separately by analyzing the pre-treatment and post-treatment data, scores and values. The effect for Yoga therapy on myopia was assessed and analyzed statistically by comparing the result of the two groups by applying Chi-square test.

Ingredients of drug

Ingredients of Saptamrita Lauha (taken in equal parts)

  • Amalaki: Emblica officinalis Gaertn
  • Haritaki: Terminala chebula Retz
  • Vibhitaki: Terminala bellirica Gaertn
  • Yashti Madhu: Glycyrrhiza glabra Linn
  • Lauha Bhasma.

Dose

A dose of 250 mg Saptamrita Lauha with 6 g honey and 12 g Ghrita twice daily for 3 months.

Yoga procedures

Yoga is an ancient science. Hathayoga, is concerned with the harmonization of forces within the body and the mind through various methods of physical and mental cleaning. The techniques of Hathayoga work on cleansing and purifying all the organs of action. Hathayoga includes only 6 Shatkarmas or groups of cleansing techniques.

  1. Jala Neti (saline nasal irrigation) is an important part of Shatkarma because it removes the mucus blocking from nasal passage which is important before practicing Pranayama.[] The tear ducts, which connect from the eyes into the nasal passage, get the same drawing out effect as the sinuses, resulting in a brighter, clearer sense of vision. It was done with proper procedure daily in the morning.
  2. Pranayama
    1. Nadi Shodhana Pranayama
      • Stage I: Without Kumbhaka
      • Stage II: With Kumbhaka.
      When the patient is acquainted with I Stage then advised to do the II Stage for 10-15 min daily.
    2. Shitali Pranayam
      The time taken was 5-8 min daily.
  3. Trataka
    Point Trataka was performed in 2 stages for 1-10 min daily.

References

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