IMPORTANCE OF NIDAN IN THE MANAGEMENT OF STHAULYA WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO OBESITY
Dr. Gondekar Shruti Y.* and Dr. Garje Pramod F.
ABSTRACT
Obesity is metabolic disease caused by accumulation of excess fat in the body. Obesity often express in terms of body mass index- BMI. Obesity mostly brings significant risk at different stages of life. A major proportion of disease like diabetis, ischemic heart disease (IHD), hypertension, ischemic stroke, ostioarthritis and CA burden may attributed to Obesity. The wrong dietary habits leads to poor metabolism and then overweight. Ayurvedic text describe the eight nindya prakrutis and staulya is one of them. According to Ayurveda sthaulya vyadhi or medoroga is one of the santarpanottha vikara. There are various different treatment modalities mention in the ayurvedic text for sthaulya. Ayurveda also tells the pathyapathya, dinacharya, rutucharya for healthy living. The pathology of obesity never happen suddenly it take time for the samprapti development. Obesity can be revert by understanding the nidana and further samprapti can be break.
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