Abstract

AHARA PARINAMKAR BHAV – A CRITICAL REVIEW

*Dr. Advait Sharma, Dr. Alok Kumar Asthana, Dr. Monika Asthana and Dr. Madhvi

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Abstract

With today’s lifestyle and modern ways of living and duties human race is feeling and getting much ill and developing new forms of diseases. The biggest possible cause of this increase in disorders is the way we eat food which effect the digestive process in many ways. These six factor needed to digest food as per ayurveda. In ayurveda weak digestive fire is considered as the main cause of all diseases, knowing much more about the digestive fire and its components and factors affecting it would help us to deal with it in much more effective way. For todays era it is really very important to prove the concepts of ayurveda and establish them with scientific approach in modern world, so that we could dela with modern problem more efficiently. With this study we would try to put much more light on this concept and will try to bring best conclusions that how these bhava affect digestion and how can we relate them to modern concept of digestion. Our objective would be to find out the significance of Ahara Parinam bhav in digestion of food. For this study we’ll collect the data from ancient ayurveda literature like Charak Samhita, Sushrut Samhita, Ashtang Hridya, Bhavprakash etc. and the research articles.

Keywords: Ahara, Dosha, Food, Digestion, Gastric juices, Parasympathetic system, Agni, Fat, Mucus.