Abstract

BIOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF STANYA & ITS CORRELATION WITH RASA-SARATA

Dr. Shalini Rai*, Dr. Piyush Versha and Dr. Shaveta Sawhney

Abstract

Sara is super excellent state of the Dhatus. The supreme quality and superb functional aspect of Dhatu is Sara. Dhatu form the basic architecture of the body, they are meant to accomplish the support and nourishment role inside the body. This is completed with the support of Upadhatu. Upadhatu are derived from metabolism of Dhatu. Stanya and Raja being the Upadhatu of Rasa Dhatu, their quality, quantity excellence depends on metabolic and functional status of Rasa Dhatu. Thus present research aims towards establishment of relation between Rasa Dhatu Sarata and its Upadhatu Stanya. For this, healthy lactating mothers were selected as subjects and their Rasa Dhatu Sarata i.e. Uttam, Madhyam, and Heena and also percentage of Rasa Dhatu Sarata was determined using a format based on Ayurvedic contexts. After that thirty breast milk samples of lactating mothers were assessed for the level of triglycerides, cholesterol and protein and were compared depending on their percentage of Rasa Sarata. The collected data related to percentage of Rasa Dhatu Sarata and level of triglycerides, cholesterol, and protein in breast milk, was then analysed and result was concluded using suitable statistical test. Which shown that, there is significant positive correlation between Rasa Sarata and triglycerides, significant negative correlation between Rasa Sarata and cholesterol and significant positive correlation between Rasa Sarata and total protein. This study is efficient to establish a relation between Dhatu Sarata and status of Upadhatu and there functioning inside body.

Keywords: Rasa-Sarata, Upadhatu, Stanya.