Historical review of Vicharchika as per Ayurvedic classics.

ABSTRACT

Vicharchika which is one of the common skin diseases, is most prevalent among masses whether rural or urban. A critical peep with regard to this into the various Ayurvedic Classics reveals that, the various kushtha rogas (including Vicharchika) were known to ancients of remote antiquity. Though all Ayurvedic classics have described eighteen varieties of Kushthas dividing into the two main groups viv. Mahakushthas and Kshudra Kushthas, but they differ in nomenclature, order, description, doshas involved and prognosis etc.