EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE OF LIFESTYLE DISEASES W.S.R TO PANCHAKARMA
Journal Title: Journal of Biological and Scientific Opinion - Year 2015, Vol 3, Issue 3
Abstract
With rapid economic development and increasing westernization of lifestyle in the past few decades prevalence of lifestyle diseases has reached alarming proportions among Indians in the recent years. Ayurveda the science of life, describes the management of lifestyle diseases in the forms of proper dietary and behavioral management (dinacharya and rtucharya), panchakarma procedures, medicaments, and rejuvenation therapies. The paper reviews some of the reported research works on panchakarma therapy in the management of lifestyle diseases.
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Vidhya Unnikrishnan , Nishteswar K.
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