Abstract

A LITERARY REVIEW ON PRIMARY HYPERTENSION: AN AYURVEDIC PERSPECTIVE

Apeetha S.*, Dr. Suvendu Rout and Dr. Pradeep Kumar Moharana

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Abstract

Background: Primary hypertension is a hazardous disease occurring as a result of hereditary, psychosomatic involvement and poor lifestyle habits including restricted physical activity, alcohol consumption, poor dietary and increase mental stress such as anxiety, stress etc. In contemporary science over a period of time, medicines create adverse drug reactions that will lead to resistance hypertension and complications. Intervention: According to Ayurveda, though direct reference of primary hypertension are not available and the disease can be understood with ayurvedic principles such as dosha, dushya, shrotas etc. The present study is undertaken to evaluate the factors involved in primary hypertension along with its Ayurveda understanding and to explain the disease in terms of Ayurveda.

Keywords: Ayurveda, Avarana, Circulation, Hypertension, Rakta, Rasa-Samvahana, Vayu.