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A 48-year-old male, approached Dr Sreekumar, presenting with severe pain, redness and light intolerance in the left eye for 1 week. Along with this he also had a blurring of vision in the Left Eye. As this was his first consultation, after a preliminary torch light examination at the OPD an opacity was noted in the inferior cornea of the left eye and the patient was sent for a detailed slit lamp evaluation and visual acuity assessment. The clinical diagnosis was Corneal Dendritic Ulcer. On history taking, the patient had a history of Chickenpox several years back and similar eye complaints a few years back, for which he took conventional medicines. But was not satisfied with the treatment. He also developed side effects in response to these medicines. So, in this episode, he opted for Ayurveda. The Ayurvedic Diagnosis was Savrana Shukla, In this patient, snehana, vranahara, vranaropana, shophahara treatments were given to pacify the aggravated rakta and pitta and do rakta prasadana. After 1 and half months of OP Ayurvedic medicines, he was completely asymptomatic and Slit lamp evaluation stained negative for ulcer without any opacities in the cornea.