Skin diseases - management with reference to Ranbir Prakash.

ABSTRACT

A reliable estimate is that one in twenty people has a skin disease. The quest for health which started with the advent of man on the horizon of this universe is still continuing. Such an attempt was also made during the reign of Maharaja Ranbir Singh of Jammu & Kashmir, when "Ranbir Prakash" a compendium of different. Ayurvedic texts came into existence. In the present paper it is tried to bring forth the different therapeutic regimens for the management of different skin afflictions described under Kushtha roga in the "Ranbir Prakash".