Abstract:
In female reproductive system, Bartholin’s glands are one of the essential
organs. In 17th century, Danish anatomist, Casper Bartholin first described
about Bartholin’s cyst. at the posterior introitus of vagina two pea-sized
glands of Bartholin’s glands found and secret mucus to ensure vaginal
and vulval lubrication. Bartholin gland abscess or cyst is a common vulval
pathology affecting the females of reproductive age group. this study
was conducted in the OPD of the National Ayurvedic Teaching Hospital,
Colombo-08. A 31-year-old female patient came with recurrent Bartholin
cyst for one year with the complaint of left labia majora swelling, pain and
difficult to walk. she was given Unani treatment Roghn e khas to apply
twice a day for 2 weeks intervals for 6 weeks. the main outcome measure
was to observe the resolvent of swelling and pain of Bartholin’s cyst. the
patent’s swelling on labia majora and pain reduced within 4 weeks of the
treatment. these Unani formulae might have as stat to resolve the swelling
and pain of Bartholin’s cyst as they considered to have muhalli e warm,
musakkin, daf e tafoon and daf e humma action. some of these drugs
have been pharmacologically proved to its medicinal propoerties, which is
reported to improve the reducing swelling and pain that may be attributed
to foavinoids, saponins and alakaloids.
