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Health is usually treated, as absence of illness and a person free from disease is considered healthy. The main aim of Ayurveda includes, preventing a healthy person from getting diseased and treatment of diagnosed person. In ayurveda large number of diseases are due to main role of vata that called as Vatananatmaj vyadhi. There are 80 vatananatmaja vyadhi described in charaka Samhita among them Gridhrasi is one of the common vatnanatmaja vyadhi. Gridhrasi can be correlated with sciatica in modern science. The word gridhrasi is derived from the sanskrit word gridhra that means the name of bird i.e.vultur.The name given so is because patient suffering from this disease walk like vulture. It implies the typical gait of patient, slightly tilted at the affected side and affected leg in the flexed position and another leg being extended. In gridhrasi pain like sensation of pin and needle start in spika (buttock) and gradually encroach the region of kati (pelvis and lumbosacral region) uru (thigh), janu (behind knee), jangha and pada (foot). In Ayurveda there is various treatments are available for the management of Gridhrasi. Which includes Shodhana, Shamana Chikitsa which helps to reduced the pain in Gridhrasi.