CRITICAL REVIEW ON VIRUDDHA AAHARA AND ITS ASSOCIATION WITH JUNK FOOD IN DAY-TO-DAY LIFE
Journal Title: World Journal of Pharmaceutical Research - Year 2018, Vol 7, Issue 12
Abstract
In today’s era our daily routine, food habits are extremely changed. Due to these drastic change in life style and food habits our body gets exposed to various toxins. Various junk foods like sugary drinks, pizza, white bread, industrial vegetable oils, margarine, pastries, cakes, French fries, potato chips, etc. are also results of the modern lifestyle which responsible for formation of toxins within the body. These types of foods can correlated with Viruddha ahara. All these toxins remains in our body in a dormant stage for a long duration and due to some stimulating factors, they result into various diseases. This is nothing but the concept of “Dushivisha”. The concept of cumulative toxicity due to junk food are not given in our ancient text but their symptoms and pathophysiology resembles with Dushivisha. In Charak Samhita, the symptoms that produces by action of Dooshivisha depends on vitiation of three Dosha (humor) i.e. Vata, pitta, kapha in the body. Thus the disorders that not given in our ancient texts can be correlated with the symptoms of dosha and sthana of accumulation of toxin which can be evaluate for the selection of treatment protocol of dooshivisha.
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Dr. Amolshah M. Madavi
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