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Comprehensive Post Operative Management with the Ayurvedic medications is one of the foremost areas of research. In many research centers diverse medications were used in the management of different post operative wounds, where in classics it is described as Sadhyo Vrana & in our research centre many drugs were tried. Few of them like Triphala Guggulu, Gandhaka Rasayana, Asanadi qwaatha & Bala taila maatra basti were used either for pain management or wound healing and proved to be efficacious in the management of different post operative conditions. In the present study Comprehensive Post Operative Management in Inguinal Hernia is carried out using above said drugs & compared with the group of patients treated with contemporary methods using Antibiotics & Analgesics. It is a single blind clinical study, where in 20 patients were selected for the study from SDM Ayurveda Hospital, Udupi and divided into two groups of ten patients each control group patients were treated with Inj Gentamicin 40mg IV BD & Inj Diclofenac sodium sulphate 1 amp IM SOS & in trial group patients were treated with Triphala Guggulu 450 mg 1 tid, Gandhaka Rasayana 250 mg 1 tid, Asanadi qwaatha 40 ml BD & Bala taila maatra basti 40 ml OD & the results were analyzed based on the proforma specially prepared for the study. The present study, comprehensive Ayurvedic post operative management shows a better wound healing, early recovery & shows satisfactory pain relief in the patients operated for inguinal hernia. A trial of these techniques in larger number of patients with varied groups of patients can establish a universally accepted Ayurvedic post operative management

Post operative wound healing’ ‘Sadhyo Vrana’‘Triphala guggulu, Gandhaka Rasayana, Asanadi qwaatha, Bala taila maatra basti.’ ‘Gentamicin, Diclofenac sodium’