@article{Nair Sandeep Damodharan_Vijayagopal Sunil Kumar_Przuntek Horst_Webering Nadine_Hegelmaier Tobias_2020, title={A COMPLEMENTARY APPROACH ON OLFACTORY DYSFUNCTION IN PARKINSONS DISEASE- RETROSPECTIVE OBSERVATIONAL STUDY}, volume={8}, url={http://ijaprs.com/index.php/ijapr/article/view/1644}, DOI={10.47070/ijapr.v8iSupply1.1644}, abstractNote={<p>Olfactory dysfunction is a frequent non-motor symptom of Parkinson’s disease (PD) that involves deficits in odour detection, discrimination, and identification. Hyposmia may be related to neuronal degeneration with deposition of alpha-synuclein in primary olfactory areas as a very early component of the pathology of PD. Olfactory dysfunction also known as <em>Gandhajnana</em> or <em>Gandhanaasha</em> in Ayurveda is a result of improper functioning of different <em>Vatas</em>due to either degeneration of <em>Dhathus</em> (Tissues) or obstruction in the normal movement of <em>Vata.</em> We analysed the smell test results within the population of Parkinsons patients admitted in Department of Neurology and Complementary medicine in Evangelical Hospital Hattingen from 2012 till 2017. Patients received the prescribed Allopathy and Ayurveda treatment for their ailments along with Ayurveda diet, Ayurveda massage and purification therapies. The primary and the only outcome measure was to assess the results of smelling sensation of the Parkinson’s patients already conducted by a Smell test with Sniffing Sticks supplied by Burghart Messtechnik. A paired t-test was conducted to compare scores obtained in smell test before and after treatment in each group separately. There was a significant difference in the scores of smell test in two groups. Results suggest that patients, treated first with <em>Vasthi</em> and then <em>Ksheerabala </em>oil<em> Nasya</em> showed significant improvement in the scores of smell test (t=-2.509, p= 0.017). The results of patients, treated with only <em>Vasthi</em> also showed significant improvement in the scores of smell test (t=-2.007, p= 0.053).</p&gt;}, number={Supply1}, journal={International Journal of Ayurveda and Pharma Research}, author={Nair Sandeep Damodharan and Vijayagopal Sunil Kumar and Przuntek Horst and Webering Nadine and Hegelmaier Tobias}, year={2020}, month={Oct.}, pages={25-32} }