A Clinical Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Belladonna in Various Potencies in Primary Dysmenorrhoea of Adolescent Girls

Abstract

Primary Dysmenorrhea is literally termed as Painful menstruation. Most of the women do suffer with painful menses which intervenes in their day to day activities. cause of pain due to excessive vasopressin, leukotrienes, prostaglandin, myometrial ischemia, uterine malformation. Dysmenorrhea may present with pain in abdomen before or during menses, associated with nausea, tachycardia, irritability, fatigue, and headache. In this study 30 cases presenting with complaints of primary dysmenorrhoea is selected with the symptoms of Belladonna is randomly selected. Potency is selected according to susceptibility and improved was accessed by intensity of symptoms before and after the treatment. Out of 30 cases 22 had shown marked improvement and 7 cases had moderate improvement & 1case had no improvement. This study determines the effectiveness of Belladonna in the treatment of Primary dysmenorrhoea in adolescent girls.