Use Of Suppositories In The Treatment Of Hemorrhoids

Abstract

The aim behind of this study was to revise the importance of the presence of rectal drug delivery system amongst the medications used to treat hemorrhoids and other anorectal complications. In order to do so, the proctologic database systems like Medline were employed along with the prior scribing of the literature heavily based on the ancient Ayurveda and Persian medicine scriptures. In addition to that, various modern suppository bases were also analyzed on the basis of their physicochemical properties, pros and cons along with the physiological and pharmaceutical considerations influencing rectal drug delivery. As a result, this review became successful to conclude that there is abundant amount of literature and data regarding rectal suppositories, various bases to be incorporated, various forms of Varti and their herbal and chemical active ingredients available in proctologic accounts as well as in both Persian and Ayurvedic medicinal scriptures