Kasa Vyadhi: A Literature review

Kasa is one of the pathological conditions explained in many contexts in Ayurvedic texts. Kasa may develop as an independent disease, a lakshana associative to other disease or as Upadrava of a disease. Understanding and differentiating the Kasa is most important to treat the condition effectively. In the present era Kasa is the most common disease affecting a large aged population. Kasa is one of the Pranvaha Strotodusthijanya Vyadhi. The vitiated Prana Vayu along with Udana Vayu which further gets aggravated in association with other Doshas and expelled out forcefully with a “coughing sound” like the broken bronze vessel, called as Kasa. In Ayurveda, based on the similarity in signs and symptoms, the Kasa nearest correlation is Bronchitis.