Abstract

AN AYURVEDIC APPROACH TO STUDY INSULIN RESISTANCE IN PCOS AND ITS MANAGEMENT: A REVIEW ARTICLE

Prashant Patil* and Vaishnavi Ganesh Shete

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Abstract

PCOS is lifestyle disorder and prevalence of it is increasing very fastly in women. It is one of metabolic disease in which there is irregularities of menses, Polycystic appearance present in ovaries due to which there is ovarian dysfunction present, acne, acanthosis nigricans, obesity are the symptoms present. Insulin Resistance is the common pathology present in which there is raised insulin levels. According to ayurveda PCOS can be correlate with Artavdusht according to the symptoms. In samprapti kapha and vata dushti is there due to nidan sevan. Dushta kapha causes agnimandya which causes formation of aama and Uttarottar dhatudushti. As Artav is the upadhatu of rasa, there is dushti of aartav. In this review article total 22 articles were studied and it is concluded that ayurvedic medicine has also good effects on insulin Resistance in PCOS.

Keywords: PCOS, Insulin Resistance, Ayurveda, Sthoulya, Hyperandrogenism.