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Role of Ābzan (Sitz Bath) in Gynaecological Disorders: A Comprehensive Review with Scientific Evidence

  • Ahmed, Rummana Kauser Shabbir (Dept of Amraze Niswan wa Ilmul Qabalat (Gynaecology and Obstetrics), National Institute of Unani Medicine) ;
  • Shameem, Ismath (Dept of Amraze Niswan wa Ilmul Qabalat (Gynaecology and Obstetrics), National Institute of Unani Medicine)
  • Received : 2021.09.16
  • Accepted : 2022.02.25
  • Published : 2022.02.28
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Abstract

Ābzan(sitz bath or hydration therapy) is one of the important and widely practised methods of regimenal therapy used for local evacuation or diversion of morbid humours described for various diseases in Unani system of medicine. Itis a type of bath in which hips and buttocks are immersed in water, either plain or medicated for therapeutic effects. Thus, it serves as an important and effective external mode of treatment. It has been successfully practised by Greeko-Arab physicians in the management of almost all types of gynaecological disorders like genital prolapse, leucorrhoea, pruritus vulvae, menstrual disorders, infertility, pelvic inflammatory diseases etc, but its efficacy has been proved in very few gynaecological diseases only. Hence, there is a need for systemic review to investigate the effectiveness of sitz bath in gynaecological disorders to generate scientific based evidence for the clinician as well as for common public. Based on the available literature, this review article suggests that the sitz bath has a scientific evidence-based effect in treating gynaecological diseases.

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Authors are thankful to authors and editors of all those books and journals from where the literature for this article has been reviewed, retrieved and cited.

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