Abstract

STRESS AND ANXIETY: A BURNING TOPIC FOR RESEARCH IN KAUMARBHRITYA

Dr. Rakesh Sharma, Dr. Bakhtyar Asharafi* and Dr. Bhima Devi

Abstract

Everyone feels sad, excited or angry, but when kids feel too good or too mad they may be dealing with stress and anxiety due to burden of study, relation with friends, comparison with colleagues and many more. In future era this is going to be major child health problem as they are associated with considerable burden of disease, suicides and poor quality of life. Also children don‘t exhibit symptoms of stress as in adults and the disease remains one of the most under diagnosed mental health problem. Although modern therapeutics have modalities for management of this but approximately 30%–40% of patients have a partial response to the available interventions. Therefore there is wide scope of research to find out a safest remedy or non-pharmacological approach. Ayurveda provides multimodality approach in the form of yoga, panchkarma procedures, medhya rasayanas and behavioral therapy through natural techniques that enhances mental ability.

Keywords: Stress, Anxiety, Ayurveda, Panchkarma, Yoga, Medhya rasayanas.