Abstract

ROLE OF SHIRODHARA BY JATAMANSI TAILA IN ANIDRA IN OLDER ADULTS- A CASE STUDY

Dr. Neha Farheen* and Dr. Rachna Nigam

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Abstract

Aahara, Nidra and Bramhacharya are described to the Trayopasthambas in Ayurveda. Hence forth, Sleep is one of the essential factors to lead a healthy life. Acharya Charaka stated that happiness, misery, proper and indecorous growth, healthy life, death of an individual depend on proper and indecorous nidra. Anidra is the most common sleep problem in worldwide and can be corelated with Insomnia. A male patient aged 70 years presented with the complaints of sleeplessness, headache(Shirashool) and heaviness in all over body(Angagaurav) since 1 year thus he took sedatives frequently from last 6 months, in spite of that patient was not getting proper sleep. He was diagnosed as Anidra. Shirodhara with jatamansi taila is given for 14 days is showed as effective management in Anidra. Shirodhara is a classical and a well-established ayurvedic procedure is a type of Murdha tail. After treatment a marked improvement is seen in 14 days. On the basis of this study it can be concluded that Shirodhara play a vital role for the management of Anidra.

Keywords: Anidra, Shirodhara, Jatamansi taila, Insomnia.