Abstract

MENOPAUSE SYNDROME AND ITS MANAGENT IN AYURVEDA

*Dr. Shital P. Rathod, Dr. Hridaynath Lad and Dr. Neeta Mahesekar

Abstract

Menopause, a Physiological phenomenon unique to every women, is the ending of a womens monthly mensrual period and ovulation. Every women faces various physiological and psychological changes during this “change of life” as a part of hormonal derangement. Sometime such disturbances attain the stage of disease or syndrome called as “Menopausal Syndrome”. Distributed life style and over stress affect the ovarian function and can bring menopause earlye. There are many health related issue in different age group of women are still present and Most suffering age group is forty-plus due to change in reproductive life by permanent cessation of mentruation called menopause. Modern medical system directly manage this problem with HRT (Hormon replacement theropy) which results in multiple complication in long term. In Ayurveda it is termed as Rajonivruti and Ancient Acharyas supposed it as normal phenomenon. As the women in particular had a regimen to follow which was prevalent in the society in those times. Ayurveda entails a holistic physiological system based on balance, with its cardinal doctrine of human physiology being constituted by “vata”, “Pitta”and “Kapha” and the nature component of earth, water, fire, air and other. menopause generally there are two broad groups of treatment: means calculated to maintain the health of healthy people and other which focus on the cure of specific disease. A detailed description of menopause is elaborated in the paper.

Keywords: Menopause, lifestyle, panchakarma, hormone.