Abstract

LIFE STYLE DISORDERS AND ITS MANAGEMENT THROUGH AYURVEDA

Savitri Soni*, Sanjay Shukla and Rupendra Chandrakar

Abstract

Good diet and life style are the basic necessities of a healthy life. Faulty lifestyle i.e. unhealthy food habits and sedentary life style give rise to various diseases such as diabetes mellitus, obesity, hypertension and heart disease etc. Generally, these implications are referred to as life style disorder. Changing lifestyle is mainly responsible for an increase in the number of people suffering from these diseases. The foremost life science, Ayurveda has described various ways for the prevention and management of life style disorders. Ayurveda provides best solution in the form of proper dietary management, lifestyle advises, detoxification as shodhana karma by panchakarma therapy, bipurification procedures, medicaments and rejuvenation therapies. Acharya Sushruta has described that health does not mean only the absence of disease but it means that mind and spirit should also be happy.

Keywords: Ayurveda, Life style disorder, Panchakarma.