A REVIEW OF ETIOLOGICAL FACTORS, PREVENTION AND AYURVEDIC MANAGEMENT OF ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION
Dr. C. S. Tanmane* and Dr. Snehal Deshmukh
ABSTRACT
Hypertension has now become a gravious problem in this era or we
call it as “silent killer”. In modern medicine lots of drugs are available
for controlling blood pressure but they have few side effect. Hence
people are looking towards Ayurveda. Ayurvedic text don’t provide any
direct reference regarding essential hypertension, but the disease can
be explained on the base of Ayurvedic principles viz. Dosha, Dushya,
Srotas, etc. An ayurvedic physician should attempt to construct the
samprapti (pathogenesis)of given clinical condition on the basis of
sign, symptoms, acuteness, chronicity in each case and should plan the
management accordingly. In Ayurveda hypertension can be correlated
with raktgatvat and is considered as tridoshaj vyadhi. Treatment of
hypertension which include proper Nidan parivarjan, shodhan,
shaman, Pathya apathya, yogasana.
Keywords: Essential hypertension, etiological factors, ayurvedic management.
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