Abstract

According to World Health Organization (WHO) more than 80% of the world’s population relies on traditional practitioners and their armamentarium of medicinal plants in order to meet health care needs in spite of modern medicine which is well established worldwide. In citt? traditional system foremost awareness has been given to Pediatric population which is considered as the backbone of the developing nation. There are various medicinal formulation and lifestyle practices which are till date in practice. One among the pediatric disease ka?a m?ntam is treated with a sastric formulation utt?ma?i karukku. In spite of various medicines used in other system of medicine, till date in Tamil Nadu the practice of Vacampu (pi??ai maruntu) has its own role, the raw drug has its own positive and negative effects it is overcome with its purification method.