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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">2063</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"/><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>CLINICAL EFFICACY OF A UNANI HERBAL FORMULATION OF HEMIDESMUS INDICUS AND&#13;
OINTMENT OF ASTRAGALUS HAMOSUS IN ENDOCERVICITIS-A RANDOMIZED SINGLE BLIND&#13;
STANDARD CONTROLLED TRIAL.&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Habib</surname><given-names>Shahida</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Begum</surname><given-names>Wajeeha</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Shameem</surname><given-names>Ismath</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Sofi</surname><given-names>Gh</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Lone</surname><given-names>Azad Hussain</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Bilal</surname><given-names>Alia</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><volume>)</volume><issue/><fpage>170</fpage><lpage>178</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Objectives: To compare the efficacy and safety of Hemidesmus indicus and ointment of&#13;
Astragalus hamosus with Tablet Doxycycline and vaginal pessary of Clindamycin and&#13;
Clotrimazole in endocervicitis. Material and Methods: A randomized standard controlled&#13;
single blind study was carried out in the Department of Gynecology at the National Institute of&#13;
Unani Medicine. Clinically diagnosed patients (n=45) were randomized to the test (n=30) and&#13;
control (n=15) Groups by computer generated random table No. The inclusion criteria were&#13;
married patients aged 18 to 40 years with symptoms of vaginal discharge, lower abdominal&#13;
pain, low backache, dysuria, dyspareunia, pruritus vulvae and post coital bleeding. The&#13;
exclusion criteria were unmarried, pregnant or lactating women, patients with pelvic pathology&#13;
or malignancy, using oral or intrauterine contraceptive devices, sexually transmitted diseases&#13;
and concomitant diseases. In the test Group, Majoon Ushba was given 10 gm BD orally and&#13;
intra-vaginally Marham Nakhuna was applied once daily at night for 15 days after menses for 3&#13;
consecutive cycles. In control group, Tablet Doxycycline 100 mg BD was given orally and&#13;
vaginal pessary of Clindamycin and Clotrimazole OD at night after menses for 7 days for 3&#13;
consecutive cycles. The results were analyzed by Kruskal-Wallis with Dunn__ampersandsignlsquo;s multiple&#13;
comparison, Wilcoxan match pair, Mann Whitney test, Student?t__ampersandsignlsquo; test, Fisher__ampersandsignlsquo;s exact test and&#13;
Chi-square test. Results: There was a significant improvement in the subjective and objective&#13;
parameters in both test and control group. The test drugs were found to show more response&#13;
than the control in the management of endocervicitis with p value__ampersandsignlt;0.05 Conclusion: The test&#13;
drugs were found to be useful and effective in the management of endocervicitis. Further, the&#13;
effectiveness should be evaluated in large sample size with recent techniques.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Endocervicitis; sexually transmitted disease; Hemidesmus indicus; Astragalus hamosus; Unani Herbal formulation.</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
