Abstract

CONCEPTUAL STUDY OF STHAULYA THROUGH AYURVEDIC TEXTS W.S.R. TO CHARAK SAMHITA

Sabir S. Munjawar and Amruta Ingale*

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Abstract

Obesity is the most common metabolic disease of the recent times. As a matter of fact, it is not a single disease entity but a syndrome with many causes including combination of genetic, nutritional, and environmental factors. The World Health Organization (WHO) considers obesity as “insidious, creeping pandemic which is now engulfing the entire world. Obesity is now becoming a serious matter of concern day by day. Authorities view it as one of the most serious public health problems in 21st century. Obesity is stigmatized in much of the modern world (particularly in the Western world), though it was a symbol of wealth and fertility at other times in history and still is in some parts of the world. All classical texts of Ayurveda have explained very well about sthaulya (Obesity). Keeping these facts in view, this paper is going to be an effort to comprehend etiology (hetu), pathogenesis (Samprapti) and treatment (Chikitsa Siddhant) of sthaulya through purely ayurvedic perspective.

Keywords: Sthaulya, Santarpanjanya, Ayurvedic, Charaka Samhita, Medo dhatu.