Abstract

A REVIEW OF ETIOLOGICAL FACTORS, PREVENTION AND AYURVEDIC MANAGEMENT OF ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION

Dr. C. S. Tanmane* and Dr. Snehal Deshmukh

Abstract

Hypertension has now become a gravious problem in this era or we call it as “silent killer”. In modern medicine lots of drugs are available for controlling blood pressure but they have few side effect. Hence people are looking towards Ayurveda. Ayurvedic text don’t provide any direct reference regarding essential hypertension, but the disease can be explained on the base of Ayurvedic principles viz. Dosha, Dushya, Srotas, etc. An ayurvedic physician should attempt to construct the samprapti (pathogenesis)of given clinical condition on the basis of sign, symptoms, acuteness, chronicity in each case and should plan the management accordingly. In Ayurveda hypertension can be correlated with raktgatvat and is considered as tridoshaj vyadhi. Treatment of hypertension which include proper Nidan parivarjan, shodhan, shaman, Pathya apathya, yogasana.

Keywords: Essential hypertension, etiological factors, ayurvedic management.