Abstract

PERIPHERAL HEALTH CARE: SCOPE AND ADVANTAGES IN WOMEN HEALTH THROUGH AYURVEDA

Neha Sharma* and Sujata Kadam

Abstract

72.2% population of India resides in villages. An individual when seek to consult for his/her health, first approach would be to reach to a practitioner available at nearest PHCs, CHCs available at community level provide primary health care to them as and when required. Government of India is now incorporating to AYUSH doctors at these centers. Aim of Ayurveda is to maintain the health of healthy person and to cure the diseased one. Ayurveda promotes health care of a healthy individual. At this level a lot of principles of Ayurveda like care of a pregnant woman, health awareness to teenage girls, knowledge about reproductive health to adolescents, postnatal care of women, health guidance to the elderly woman to combat menopausal problems can be incorporated to achieve healthy females of India. If a woman will be healthy, she can make a healthy family, so as to a healthy society, a healthy village, healthy country and a healthy world. Ayurveda promotes diet and lifestyle for an individual healthy along with daily regimen and seasonal regimens specialized diet and lifestyle for women for various phases of their life in different aspects like diet and lifestyle during menstruation, preconception period, after conception, during pregnancy and in postnatal period.

Keywords: Ayurveda Practitioner, Diet & Lifestyle, preconception care, Pregnant Women Health, Post Natal Care.