Abstract

HYPERTENSION IN AYURVEDA: A CONCEPTUAL STUDY

Neha Rai*, Suresh Chaubey and Shailendra Pradhan

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Abstract

In medieval period, most of the Ayurveda learned people followed Brihattrayi and Laghutrayi, hence there is no more and clear-cut description about circulatory system and its concern entities. Hence other than Hridya, Sira, Dhamani in ancient classics there is no direct reference of Hypertension was found. A suitable term for the disease condition Hypertension is not directly mentioned in the Ayurvedic classics, its symptomatology can be found in the chapters of vata vyadhi, prameha and hridroga. A disease condition vyanabala vaishamya, which can be correlated with hypertension, seems to be resulted from the vaishamya/vikriti of vyan vayu. This condition of vaishamya can be of two types either vriddhi or kshaya. Hypertension comes under vriddhi type of vaishamya. Present article is a conceptual study on physiology of hypertension according to ayurveda.

Keywords: Hypertension, vyanabala vaishamya, Hridya, Sira, Dhamani.