A comprehensive classical review on Ardita w.s.r. to Bell’s Palsy

Facial function plays an integral part in everyday lives disability of both verbal communication and facial expression are hampered in Ardita. Acharya Charaka has considered Ardita as one among the 80 Vataja Nanatmaja Vyadhi in Sutra Sthana. Ardita can be result of long-term suppression of natural urges like sneezing & Pandiculation. The features of Ardita mostly resemble with palsy of 7th nerve such as deviation of face, loss or decreased function of the affected muscles, Numbness of the particular area. Main causative Dosh of Ardita is Vata, so the line of treatment is mainly based on the principal treatment of Vata