Abstract

AN AYURVEDIC LITERATURE REVIEW ON STREE VANDHYATVA

Veena Jawale* and Shreya Vijaykumar Gandhi

Abstract

Infertility has been one of the yet unsolved major complaints of womanhood. The system of modern medicine has discovered many of its etiological factors and provide measures for its management. The school of Ayurveda mentions a few principles about Vandhyatva and describes some measures to combat the same. As the subject matter discussed in Ayurveda, it becomes necessary to study, understand and prove them particularly in light of modern scientific parameters in the present era. So the field of research in the Vandhyatva opens a broad scope for a worker. Women are considered as one of the most essential factor for continuity of life. According to definition of woman or “Stri” - i.e. one who lodges a Garbha or foetus is known as Stri. Acharya Charaka said that woman is the origin of progeny. She is called mother only when she gives birth to a child. To attain the motherhood is the aim of every woman in this world. (childlessness) is called Vandhyatva. So present study is an attempt to elaborate literary study of Vandhyatva.

Keywords: Infertility, Stri, Vandhyatva, Ayurveda.