AYURVEDA AND YOGA: AS EFFECTIVE REMEDIAL FOR THE PREVENTION AND MANAGEMENT OF PSYCHOSOMATIC AILMENTS
Journal Title: Journal of Biological and Scientific Opinion - Year 2013, Vol 1, Issue 4
Abstract
Ayurveda is the science of life with the primary aim was maintenance of health have been discussed in detailed. In the present scenario most of the diseases are multi-factorial disease, where involvement of mind is invariably present at one or the other stage of the disease. Desires are the root causes for all miseries. There are some maladaptive coping strategies that reduce a person’s stress in short time, but lead to greater difficulties in the long term. Smoking, drinking, using drugs, sex, self harm and aggressive behaviour are some examples. Yogic concept of disease gives a detailed account on how the mind is involved in bodily ailments. This gives a clear indication that the pathogenesis of psychosomatic ailments was well known to our ancient seers. Whereas, stress induced diseases, psychosomatic diseases and psychoneuro immunology are recent introductions in Modern medicine. Recent studies on stress came out with minute details of its physiology and pathology. It is widely accepted with evidence that Ayurveda and yoga is an effective remedial measure for the prevention and management of psychosomatic ailments.
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Shital Chavan, Yeshwant Patil, Vrushali Khandekar
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