Abstract

AYURVEDIC HERBS IN THE MANAGEMENT OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES- A CRITICAL REVIEW

Dr. Shalini* and Prof. R. K. Joshi

Abstract

During last centuries, life style alteration has characterised by increased calories, fat intake & reduction in physical activities along with a dramatic increase in metabolic syndrome related disorder such as Diabetes, Dyslipidaemia, Hypertension, obesity and so on. Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are the major cause of morbidity and mortality in our society with Dyslipidaemia contributing significantly to atherosclerosis.Thus there is an urgent need of knowing more about agent working on cardiac diseases. Apart from such agent of synthetic origin, there is an increasing search for cardiovascular diseases from natural origin. Various herbal drugs have been screened by different scientists on scientific parameters for evaluating their clinical efficacy in different cardio vascular diseases. A brief account of such studies has been reproduced in the paper.

Keywords: Diabetes, Dyslipidaemia, Hypertension, obesity.