Abstract

PREVALANCE OF PRAMEHA SAMANYA LAKSHANA IN HYPERGLYCEMIC SUBJECTS W.S.R TO DIABETES MELLITUS TYPE 2: A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY

*Dr. Venkatesh G. Kulkarni, Dr. Ranjitha and Dr. A. S. Patil

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Abstract

Diabetes is a very common disease that an ayurvedic doctor encounters at his clinic. In 2019, approximately 463 million individuals were affected by type 2 diabetes corresponding to 9.3% of the world’s population. Due to the similarity in causes and symptoms of diabetes and prameha, the former and latter are understood as equal. Also, at maximum instances prameha is diagnosed by observing blood sugar levels. But, there is no clear evidence that all the persons having raised blood sugar levels are having prameha roga. Thus, this study aims to observe the prevalence of prameha samanya lakshana in persons having hyperglycemia due to diabetes mellitus type two. In other words, it is intended to check whether all the patients diagnosed with diabetes mellitus type two are having prameha roga according to ayurveda. Also, this study tries to shed some fresh light on the thought that, are there other conditions according to ayurveda which might have raised blood sugar values. The study was done by assessing the diabetic patients for the presence of prameha samanya lakshana. If the prameha samanya lakshana were absent, then the diagnosis according to the principles of ayurveda was done. Based on the observations and results the conclusions were drawn. The study showed that the majority of diabetic patients did not have prameha samanya lakshana(64.2%) and others had prameha samanaya lakshana(35.7%). Among all the diabetic patients, 71.25% of patients were having prameha samprapti, 25% of patients were having chinta janya vaata vriddhi samprapti and 3.75% of patients were having leena jwara samprapti. Thus, it can be concluded that all the diabetes patients might not be having prameha samprapti and in turn prameha roga in them.

Keywords: Prameha, Diabetes, Prameha Lakshana, Samprapti, Hyperglycemia.