| Other menstrual disorders |

• Deficiency or loss of artava, the menstruation does not appear in its appropriate time or is delayed (inter-menstrual period is prolonged), is scanty and does not last for three days.
• There is also pain in vagina.

• The artava- ksaya should be treated by the use of purifying measures and agneya (hot) substances

• The dosas obstruct the passage or orifices of channels carrying artava (artava- vaha srotasa), thus artava is destroyed.
• Though artava is not finished completely, however, it is not discharged monthly. This condition is the description of amerorrhoea caused by endometrial abnormalities.

• The condition is characterized with body ache, excessive bleeding during menstruation and foul smell in menstrual blood.
• This artava- vrddhi refers to increase in amount of artava and upadhatu (ovarian hormones), this is memo-metrorrhagia due to hyper-estrogenic condition. 

• Cleansing: For cleansing of artava or relief from these disorders, after applying oleation and sudation; emetics and purgatives etc. all five cleansing measures should be used; after this uttara- basti (uterine or vaginal instillation) should be given repeatedly.
• Local treatment: To the woman suffering from vataja, pittaja, kaphaja and raktaja artavadusti, after use of oleation etc. measures, vaginal pastes, tampons etc. capable of suppressing the vitiated dosas prescribed under yoni- rogas should be given.
• Local irrigation: Beneficial diet and vaginal irrigation with the decoction of drugs capable of suppressing vata etc. dosas should be prescribed.
• Rasayana and vajikaran: In the menstrual disorders caused by single dosa, the oleation and sudation etc. prescribed for disorders of sukra (semen) rasayana and vajikarana drugs and drugs prescribed for urinary disorders should be used.
• Other medication: In the menstrual disorders due to use of sternutatory drugs by a menstruating woman. Milk medicated with jivaniya group of drugs should be prescribed. Purgation is beneficial.