A CRITICAL REVIEW ON MEDOHAR AND LEKHANIYA DRAVYAS
*Dr. Shreyash Ajit Shinde and Dr. Satish Limbaji Paknikar
ABSTRACT
Lifestyle disorders are the diseases in which lifestyle and diet lay crucial roles in the etiology of the diseases. The most common LSDs are obesity, hypertention, diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. Due to sedentary lifestyle and food habits the ratio of obesity in india is increasing day by day. Medodushti (fat metabolism disorders) serves as one of the important etiological factor in most of these disorders including Ischemic heart disease(IHD). Growing prevalence of obesity increases the rising rates of coronary and cerebrovascular diseases, diabetes. Medodushti serves as one of Ayurveda have a good result to combat the situation. Ayurvedic classics are the wealth of herbal drugs. The drugs having medohar, lekhana, karshana dravyas in Ayurveda have antiobesity activity. Drugs having laghu, ruksh guna(light and dry qualities), ushna veerya, (hot potency), Katu vipaka and vatakaphhara actions are useful in obesity.
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