Background: The Sathakuppai chooranam is a single herbal medicine used in the treatment of Kumbavatham (Periarthritis). Objective: This study aimed to evaluating morphology and elemental charecterization chooranam. Materials methods: ingredients were collected purified drug was prepared as per Siddha literature Vaithiya Pathartha Guna vilakkam. It subjected into characterisation through FT-IR a...

Duplay (1896) was the first investigator to recognize pathologic disorders of extra-articular tissues as possible factors responsible for stiff and painful shoulders. It was his belief that an inflammatory process of the subacromial bursa was the causative agent producing this syndrome. He designated the entity ‘‘scapulohumeral periarthritis.’’ Soon this term came to include a host of heterogen...