BN Gadve and Sumaiya F Sheikh

Urethral stricture disease is the common problem occurred in the patients after chronic urinary tract infection, urethral injury or post-surgical interventions performed through per urethra. In Ayurvedic literature urethral stricture may be correlated as mutrotsanga mentioned in Sushruta Samhita. There are advance surgeries available as the science advances with technology various surgeries like Urethroplasty, Visual Internal Urethrotomy, and Dilatation of urethra. The way to overcome this problem is surgery i.e. urethroplasty. But the recurrence rate is high enough to think the alternative. Uttar basti is explained as one of the treatment modality for mutraghata explained in Susruta Samhita. In Sushruta Samhita a separate chapter for mutraghata rogas has been explained which evident the importance of urological problems since ancient times. Uretheral stricture (mutramarga sankocha) is a very common disease of urinary system.

Urethral stricture is not explained or mentioned as a separate disease in ayurveda but the symptoms correlate with Mutrotsanga which is one of the 12 type of mutraghata explained by Sushruta in Utttar tantra. Acharya Sushruta explains that in Mutrosanga, pathology may be in urinary bladder or urethra anywhere from bladder to tip of penis. Acharya Sushruta also explained both internal medicine of treatment and panchkarma like swedana and uttarbasti for treatment of urinary diseases.

DOI: 10.22271/phyto.2025.v14.i1e.15258

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