Pilot Study on Efficacy Evaluation of Siddha Remedy Adathoda Cigarette in Reducing the Serum Nicotine Level for Tobacco Smoking De-Addiction
Journal Title: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CURRENT RESEARCH IN MEDICAL SCIENCES - Year 2018, Vol 4, Issue 6
Abstract
Cigarette smoking remains the leading cause of death throughout the world, further it becomes the serious factor contributing premature death in the developing countries like India. Tobacco addiction involves the interplay of pharmacology, learned or conditioned factors, genetics, and social and environmental factors .The pharmacologic reasons for nicotine use are enhancement of mood, either directly or through relief of withdrawal symptoms, and augmentation of mental or physical functions. The major drawback of nicotine upon chronic usage causes anxiety and stress. Management of tobacco withdrawal becomes the major concern in subjects of de addiction program. Several methodologies have been adopted around the globe to manage the nicotine with symptoms of such as irritability, depressed mood, restlessness but most of them fail to provide successful relief. As an attempt of modern therapy with the conventional traditional siddha remedy. The present investigation aimed at supplementing the Adathoda cigarette (AC) mentioned in vedic literature Gunapadamporutpanbunool. Present pilot study was carried out in 10 male patients with three AC per day for the period of 2 months with decrement from regular nicotine cigarette (NC) usage starting from 75% at 1st week to 25% in the fourth week of the study. The results of the study have clearly projects that there was a significant decrease in the level of blood nicotine level in the subjects exposed to AC along with regular NC. Hence it was concluded based on the results of the study that the siddha remedy AC being an herbal moiety maybe considered as a drug of choice in tobacco withdrawal subjects.
Authors and Affiliations
P. Kamalasoundaram*1, T. Lakshmikantham2 V. Banumathi3
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- DOI 10.22192/ijcrms.2018.04.06.005
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