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RETROSPECTIVE STUDY OF PATHYA- APATHYA IN PANDU VYADHI (ANEMIA) ACCORDING TO AYURVEDA

Sonal Balkrishna Bhople*, Mangesh Udmale and Shital Shashikant Bhave

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Abstract

Pandu roga the word itself describe as the disease in which there is presence of altered skin color like yellowish white discoloration of skin. Pandu widely described in various vedas and ayurvedic texts as an independent disease or associated symptoms of other disease. In modern it can be closely related with iron deficiency anemia on the basis of symptoms and causative factors. In a recent estimate, about 8.8% of global population is affected includes all age groups. It is most common form of anemia in India with root cause of nutritional deficiency. Due to high vegetarian diet and less dairy or poultry intake prevalence rate increases per year. Anaemia is a major global public health problem and the most prevalent nu-tritional deficiency disorder in the world. Our faulty dietary habits and lifestyles produces ama which causes agnimandya which further produce aamayukta aaharras. It hampers production of prakrut ras dhatu and develops pandu roga. So prakrut ras and rakta dhatus are necessary to cure the pandu roga which can be achieve by taking proper diet. The detailed knowledge of apathya and pathya aahar explained in above article.

Keywords: Pathya, Apathya, Aahar, Pandu roga, Anemia.