Abhimanyu Kumar

• MSc, MD(Ayurveda Pediatrics), PhD
• Vice Chancellor at Dr Sarvepalli radhakrishnan Rajasthan Ayurved University

Background: Ayurveda is widely practiced in South Asia in the treatment of osteoarthritis (OA). The aim of these secondary data analyses were to identify the most relevant variables for treatment response and group differences between Ayurvedic therapy compared to conventional therapy in knee OA patients. Methods: A total of 151 patients (Ayurve...

Introduction: Cerebral palsy (CP) presents the basic problem of gross delay in the achievement of milestones according to age, especially the motor ones. The study was planned to assess the comparative efficacy of Ayurveda drugs and procedures in the achievement of milestones in conjunction with available standard management physiotherapy (PT). Mat...

Drimiaindica (Roxb.) Jessop (Asparagaceae) is a reputed Ayurvedic medicine for a number of therapeutic benefits, including for cardiac diseases, indigestion, asthma, dropsy, rheumatism, leprosy, and skin ailments. The present work aimed to critically and extensively review its traditional uses, phytochemistry, pharmacology, toxicology, and taxonomy...

Introduction: Among the list of stressful professions all over the world, Nursing Profession tops the list. In most tertiary care hospitals, nurses are the ones who are most stressed out due to conflict at the workplace though working at the bottom of the hierarchy. There is a lack of data on stress among nurses due to conflicts at work and other w...

The Himalayan region is the treasure house of natural wealth, particularly of medicinal and aromatic plants. These plants are used by the Indian traditional healers for the past many centuries to treat various ailments such as skin disorders, asthma, diabetes, snake bite, fever, pain, eye diseases, diarrhoea, indigestion, jaundice, burn, wound, liv...

The present market for herbal drugs is estimated about ₹40 billion, which is expected to increase by 16% in next 3-4 years. The current production of many Ayurvedic herbs is less than their market demand, which incentivizes adulteration in the Ayurvedic drug supply chain. The present work aims to highlight the most used Ayurvedic plants that have b...

Background: Ayurveda is a traditional Indian system of medicine. The customized Ayurvedic approach consists of a combination of several diagnostic procedures and subsequent individualized therapeutic interventions. Evaluation of inter-rater reliability (IRR) of Ayurvedic diagnoses has rarely been performed. The aim of this study was to evaluate IRR...

Adolescence represents a unique period in the life cycle. No longer children and not yet adults. As per universal definition of Adolescence-it is span of life between 10 years to 19 years during which every individual goes through myriad of physical, psychological and cognitive development. Adolescence is a critical juncture in the adoption of beha...

Although biometrics is being increasingly used across the world, it also raises concerns over privacy and security of the enrolled identities. This is due to the fact that biometrics are not cancelable and if compromised may give access to the intruder. To address these problems, in this paper, we suggest two simple and powerful techniques called (...

Objective: Ayurveda is commonly used in South Asia to treat knee osteoarthritis (OA). We aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of Ayurvedic treatment compared to conventional conservative care in patients with knee OA. Method: According to American College of Rheumatology (ACR) criteria knee OA patients were included in a multicenter randomized, c...

Background Ageing is not an illness, but the elderly are vulnerable to slowly evolving chronic diseases. The difficulties faced by the elderly are uncountable leading to social and cultural differences in the present Indian society. Objective This study was conducted to assess the socio-demographic profile, lifestyle practices and morbidities of t...

Background Traditional Indian Medicine Ayurveda is used to treat knee osteoarthritis (OA) despite limited evidence. Objectives We aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of complex Ayurvedic treatment compared to complex conventional care in knee OA patients. Methods According to ACR criteria patients with knee OA were included in a multicenter rando...

Iodine deficiency disorders (IDDs) have been recognized as one of the major nutritional disorders throughout the world affecting 200 million people who are at risk and another 71 million suffering from goiter and other IDDs. These groups of disorders can affect every stage of life, but most vulnerable age group is between 6 and 12 years and these d...

Poor mental concentration is being identified as one of the important cause of academic under achievement. Ayurveda may prove beneficial in improving mental concentration in a safe and effective way. To provide an update of the practical application of Ayurveda compound Kalyana leha and shirodhara procedure in management of poor mental concentratio...

From historical point of view it is evident that Ayurvedic drugs and procedure based therapies are exceedingly used in alleviating wide range of ocular conditions. Shalakya-tantra-the core engrossing specialty of Ayurveda, deals with management of ocular illness and has been significantly contributing to the eye care. In this study is an attempt ha...

The disease Amlapitta is a frequent presentation in clinical practice. Excess formation of vitiated pitta (Pitta Dr ava guna vridhi ) due improper dietary and lifestyle habits is thought to be the main pathological mechanism behind manifestation of this disease. Classical Ayurvedic formulations like Avipattikar choorna and su tasekhar Rasa are ofte...

It h as been estimated that about 6 lak h s infant and young children die from RS V annually, and if bacterial co - infections are included then this number may approach 10 lak h s deaths annually. More than 2 million deaths are estimated to r esult each year in the world as a consequence of diarrheal disease in children of under five years. This s...

Hypertension is a condition in which the arteries have persistently elevated blood pressure. It is considered as the silent killer as m ost sufferers are asymptomatic. Ess ential or prim ary hypertension is considered as the leading contributory cause of death worldwide . Despite good access to care, admittance to lifestyle modification, and the pr...

Seven full-scale concrete beam specimens are tested under gradually increasing monotonic loading to investigate their overall flexural response due to the addition of both metallic and nonmetallic fibers to the concrete. Steel and polypropylene fibers of 0.5% and 1.0% volume fraction are used in the fiber-reinforced concrete (FRC) beam specimens. N...

Cerebral palsy(C.P.) with incidence of 1/1000 is emerging as a new problem for our modernized society .Fully equipped medical world is still lacking a proper cure in this field on the contrary its incidence is slowly increasing since last century. It is considered as a group of disorders due to a non-progressive lesion in the brain .The cause behin...

This book contains information on Plant wealth of Uttarakhand and the uses of the respective species.

Cerebral Palsy is a non-progressive disease having a lesion in the brain due to an obscure etiology prenatally, Nataly, or postnatally however prenatal causes are dominant worldwide. In this disease, there is a gross delay in the development of motor functions along with some associated symptoms according to the location and severity of the brain l...

About 80% of population in India is reported to use Ayurveda and medicinal plants to help in meeting their primary health care needs and the safety of this vibrant tradition is attributed to its time tested use, textual reference and further endorsement by scientific studies. With the growing use of Ayurveda, the safety and efficacy as well as qual...

Ayurveda defines health as a state of equilibrium of tridosha, trimala, sapatadhatu and homoeostasis of mind as well as sense organs. The mind or manas is considered three dimensional in terms of three gunas viz sattva, rajas and tamas. It is believed that all mental illness is because of the disorders of rajas and tamas. Thus rajas and tamas are a...

Background: Cerebral palsy is disorder of neuromotor origin due to non progressive brain damage in its early developing period. It is often accompanied by other features like seizures, behavioral disorders and cognitive impairment restricting their normal activities of daily living, making them to be dependent on others. Aim and Objectives: The pre...

Diabetes mellitus (madhumeha) is one amongst the refractory disease conditions recognized by medical scholars of ancient India. Ayurvedic literatures vividly describe about the etiology, pathogenesis, prognosis, complications, its management and scientifically attributed the causal relationship of dietary, lifestyle, environmental and genetic facto...

Objective: The ancient Indian medical system, Ayurveda, is the oldest scientifically based system of medicine in the world. According to Ayurvedic concepts, there are 3 humors or Doshas: Vata, Pitta, and Kapha. The combination of these Doshas in varying degrees leads to one's constitution, referred to as Prakruti. Prakruti determines one's physica...

Sport science studies applications of scientific principles and techniques with the aim of improving sports performance. Present research work was carried out with the aim to enhance the sport performance of children. Randomized double blind placebo controlled study was conducted in children involved in sports to assess the efficacy of trial drug "...

Every fifth child develops an allergic disorder sometime during childhood and these conditions gravely trouble the health status and quality of life of children. Conventional agents are being used to control allergic disorders. However, these are not entirely affordable and effective. Numerous medicinal plants have been used successfully for the pr...

Purpose: Cerebral palsy being a non-progressive disease presents with a gross delay in the motor milestones according to particular age. This delay depends on the number, location and severity of the lesion inside the brain. In this study, Ayurvedic drugs and procedures with established beneficial role in the management of neuromuscular conditions...

Nutritional iron deficiency is the most common cause of anemia in India. The nearest correlation of iron deficiency anemia (IDA) can be made with Pandu Roga in Ayurveda. As the IDA is a very common prevalent disease in the society and the side effects of oral allopathic iron preparations are very common, therefore to get a better alternative, an Ay...

alkaloid Strychnine which is a spinal poison and causes mortality at fatal dose. There are no therapeutic uses of Strychnos nux-vomica in modern medicine but traditionally its seeds are used in treatment of various ailments. Ayurveda advocates a specialized procedure called as sodhan karma (detoxification process) of Poisonous drugs before using it...

Background: We sought to define the influence of ethnicity on associations between novel biomarkers and cardiovascular disease (CVD) events among Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) study participants, a community based population of asymptomatic US adults. Methods: Baseline (log transformed) levels of biomarkers namely C-reactive prote...

Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a behavioral disorder of children. It is the most common neurological disorder of childhood. The present study was conducted to examine the increase in attention span in 43 ADHD-affected children treated with different approaches. The reaction time was measured using a Vernier chronoscope (electron...

This paper attempts to explore the basis and extent of corporate criminal liability in India and tries to answer the questions regarding mens rea and when the corporation will be held liable and the basis upon which such liability attaches to a corporation. In India, Criminal Liability is attached only those acts in which there is violation of Crim...

Indian constitution provides two safety valves in the form of articles 72 and 161. Under article 72 President has the power to grant pardon and under article 161 Governor of a state has the power to grant pardon. Government of India has apparently reserved article 72 for grant of mercy to terrorists and hardened criminals whose cases are pleaded by...

Pandu Roga (Anaemia) is one of the common problem in the developing countries like India specially in women and children. Iron deficiency anaemia (IDA) is the commonest form of anaemia in children. Allopathic iron preparations are gastric irritant and having common side effects of oral iron including nausea, abdominal pain and either constipation o...

Attention Deficit Hyperactive disorder is a neurobehavioral disorder of childhood period and characterized by inattention, impulsiveness and hyperactivity. In a randomized double blind placebo controlled study a formulated Ayurvedic compound ‘Manas Niyamak Yoga’ has shown statistically significant improvement in the symptoms- inattention, impulsive...