Abstract

STUDY THE EFFECTS OF RUKSHA UDWARTANA BY HARITAKI, BIBHITAKI AND SHWETACHANDANA CHURNA IN STHAULYA

*Dr. Yeshwant Rajpal Patil, Vd. Suhas Uttamrao Sakhare and Vd. Santosh Shriram Thombare

Abstract

Obesity is a gift of the modern age of machines and materialism. It occurs as a result of lack of physical activity with increased intake of food. The industrialization, stress during the work, dietary habits, lack of exercise and various varieties among the daily diet e.g. fast food, frozen fruits, increased amount of soft drinks and beverages results in to the clinical entity which we can call as obesity. In ayurveda, sthaulya is considered as one of the ninditpurusha, Acharya Charaka has explained the swasth purush as sama mamsa, samapramana, sama samhanana and having drudh indriyas. Acharya Charaka mentioned Ruksha Udwartana in the management of sthaulya, while Acharya bhavaprakash mentioned the Ruksha properties of haritaki, bibhitaki and shwetachandana. Acharya Sushruta described Udwartana as kapha–Medovilayana which are the main doshadushya in sthaulya. In this way we can overcome the increasing burden of obesity.

Keywords: Sthaulya, Ruksha udwartana, Haritaki, Bibhitaki, Shweta-chandana.