Abstract

A CLINICAL STUDY ON EFFICACY OF TILAAMALAKAADI RASAYANA IN HEALTHY INDIVIDUALS

*Dr. Renu Khayamali, Dr. Yogeesha Acharya and Dr. Sandesh Kumar

Abstract

Ayurveda, the ancient Indian system of holistic medicine, has two main objectives i.e. to prevent and promote health and management and cure of diseases. For the fulfillment of the very first aim i.e. swasthasya swastha rakshana, the concept of swasthavritta have been described. In swasthavritta all the vrittis which should be followed for maintenance of swastha have been described, which include following Dinacharya, Ratricharya, Rutucharya, Rasayana administration, e.t.c. Rasayana is one of the unique concept in Ayurveda, which have been told to benefit the body and mind, maintain harmony of body, mind and soul and improves quality of life. To assess these ayusthapana and vayasthapana quality of rasayana dravya the persent study of “clinical study on efficacy of Tilaamalakaadi Rasayana on swastha” was conducted. For the study 40 apparently healthy individuals were selected and randomly divided into group A and B. Group A was administered with the trial drug i.e. tilaamalakaadi granules where in Group B sugar granules was administered for 45 days. Assessment was done based on objective, subjective parameters and WHOQOL-BREF questionnaire. Both groups showed improvements in subjective and objective parameters, when compared Group A showed better improvements than Group B in all the parameters of the assessment. Thus, Tilaamalakaadi Rasayana can be administered in healthy individual for the health promotion.

Keywords: Rasayana, tilaamalakaadi, Swastha.