Abstract

Background Madhumegam is one of the major common disease mentioned in siddha literature. This disease comes to end by ten numbers of avathaigal which will be correlated to the complication occur in diabetes mellitus. The alarming rate of higher incidences increase as  on every year which is confessed upon by the ICMR guidelines - 2005. The statistics says that every tenth of Indian population is being suffered by diabetes mellitus which will be increased 32 million in 2030. WHO projects that diabetes will be the 7th leading cause of death in 2030. Prevalence of diabetes in 10.2% and 9.2% among urban men and rural (men), respectively among woman 8.0% and 6.3% in urban and rural respectively as per the National Health Survey 2015 - 2016 in Tamilnadu. Aim: This study was designed to evaluate onset and present symptoms of Avathigal- 10 in madhumegam patients. Materials & Methods: The study was a hospital based, cross sectional study carried out at government siddha medical college, Palayamkottai, Tirunelveli District, Tamilnadu, India. A total of 70 responders of Diabetic patients more over randomly selected for the study.   Results: In this study diabetics will occur the patients in mostly above 30-40 yrs 10%, diabetics will occur male patients in 54.3% & Female - 45.7% and onset of avathaigal-10 symptoms occurs in diabetics patients most after 2 years at 20%, presence first symptom-frequent urination at night time 42.88% UTI infection - 4.3%, dryness of tongue-51.4%,Nausea-4.29%, wounds, crams and cyst - 10%,diarrhoea-4.29%, other infections 1.43%, TB history - Nil & TB symptoms - nil. Conclusion: Avathai-10 symptoms in madhumegam is most prevalence in untreated Diabetes patients.