Abstract

A CLINICAL STUDY ON YASHTIMADHU (GLYCYRRHIZA GLABRA LINN.) IN POSTMENOPAUSAL SYNDROME

T. Swathi* Bulusu Sitaram and P. Suneela

Abstract

Ayurveda has adopted holistic approach to maintain healthy and long life. Alterations in the body during puberty, reproductive, menopausal and postmenopausal stages, create affinity towards different diseases in a woman’s life. The postmenopausal period is associated with significant increase in the incidence of age where make her prone to more diseases. In Ayurveda, menopause is a result of jaravastha caused due to change in time, mostly degenerative in which, Vata dosha is predominant along with depletion of all the seven dhatus. Here Rasayanas help in the Postponement of the ageing process and restore the normal functions of the tissues, through which the decaying is prevented. Here an effort had been made to study the impact of Yashtimadhu (Glycyrrhiza glabra Linn.) in menopausal syndrome by applying the principle of Rasayana Karma and also by its phytoestrogen contents. Charaka has advised milk as anupana to Yastimadhu due to its enhancement effect. The patients suffering from Postmenopausal syndrome were divided into two groups, Group A milk as Anupana and Group B water as Anupana for Yastimadhu. Each group contains 15 patients. All the patients were advised to take 3 grams powdered Yastimadhu roots in three divided doses for a period of 45 days. The result showed that the Yastimadhu root powder showed more significance in patients confined to milk as Anupana due to its Rasayana effect than patients in water as Anupana.

Keywords: Postmenopausal syndrome, Yashtimadhu, Phytoestrogen, Anupana, Rasayana, jaravastha.