Sangeeta Gehlot

Banaras Hindu University | BHU · Department of Kriya Sharir

Abstract In Ayurveda, every individual is believed to possess a unique entity known as Prakriti, which distinguishes them from others physically, physiologically, and psychologically. This entity also determines an individual's response to a particular stimulus, and it is believed that such responses are not solely determined by genetics. The prese...

Bala in Ayurveda physiology is a multidimensional factor that refers to physical and psychological strength and the ability produced in response to antigen exposure and resistance against the manifestation of disease. It has also been synonymously used for components providing strength, nourishment, and stability to the body such as Oja, Vyadhiksha...

Ayurveda is a traditional system of healthcare that is native to India and has a rich documented literature of its own. Most of the historians agree that the documentation of core Ayurveda literature took place approximately in between 400 BCE and 200 CE, while acknowledging that the roots of its theoretical framework can be traced back to a much e...

Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) is a complicated multifactorial illness involving hereditary and external environmental variables. The symptoms typically appear gradually over a number of years without realizing it. This viewpoint is further supported by the Ayurvedic constitution concept (Prakriti). Prakriti explains the biological variability tha...

Transcendental meditation, Yoga and Pranayama are very important stress reducing tools. Mental health was assessed through Sadhaka Pitta after three months of intervention and results were found significant.

Background: Several scientific studies have documented the relationship among personality types, psychological traits and disorders. Manasika Prakṛiti, described in Ayurveda, is based on the three qualities of mind i.e Satva, Raja and Tama which determine the three Manasika Prakṛiti, namely, Satvika, Rajasika, and Tamasika . Among these, Satvika in...

Ayurvedic physiology is based on Tridosha (biological entities responsible for body functioning and its regulation), Dhatu (tissues), Mala (waste products), Agni (biofire), Srotasa (body channels). Rakta Dhatu has been considered as Pranayatana (seat of life) because the blood plays an important role in sustenance of life and for the same reason,...

Sharapunkha (Tephrosia purpurea) is one of the important drugs in Ayurvedic system of medicine. The present study was undertaken to find out the action of Sharapunkha (Tephrosia purpurea) on Gastrointestinal System. During the passage of drug through oral route, it is probable that the active principle present in Sharapunkha, might act on gastroint...

In December 2019, an outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome Coronavirus (SARSCoV-2) infection occurred in Wuhan city, Hubei Province, China (East Asia) furthermore worldwide including India. On 30 January 2020, the first case of the COVID-19 pandemic was reported in India. India has reached more than 1.5 lakh confirmed cases including more t...

Ranunculus sceleratus Linn. is one of the well-known medicinal plants, being used from the ancient time in India and commonly called as “Jal dhaniya”. It belongs to Ranunculaceae family derived from two Latin Words “Rana” means frog and “unculus” means little and referred together as “little frog” and also species sceleratus for cursed. It is an aq...

Tissue nutrition is the continuous process which is established just after the conception and persists throughout the life. Ayurveda scholars have mentioned that the manner of tissue nutrition is not same in all phases of life. In prenatal life embryo gets nutrition by Upasneha (filtration) and Upasweda (percolation/secretion) and fetus by Garbhana...

Background: Prakriti is an enumeration of body features, internal as well as external. Prakriti Dosha quanta and blood groups are present in a person since birth to till death without changing. Prakriti and Blood Group both are derived from paternal and maternal part. Aim: - To explore the relationship among the infants’ blood groups (A B O system)...

Background: Prakriti is an enumeration of body features, internal as well as external. Prakriti Dosha quanta and blood groups are present in a person since birth to till death without changing. Prakriti and Blood Group both are derived from paternal and maternal part. Aim: - To explore the relationship among the infants’ blood groups (A B O system)...

In this research work change in different Prakriti individuals BMI was assessed before and after walking

To assess the variation of BMI after 3 months of physical exercise ( walking) as per Prakriti ( constitution) in hypertensive and diabetic individuals with the aim to explorecontrol of BMI by exercise as per Prakriti (Constitution) in hypertensive and diabetic individuals.Setting: Isotonic exercises have been performed by the patients from O.P.D. o...

Ayurveda scholars have well described about the physio-anatomical aspect of mammary gland (Stana) , physiology of lactation, importance of breast milk (Stanya) in growth and development of baby, various factors affecting the lactation and causing changes in property of milk, Galactogouge (Stanyajanana), and drugs for purification of mother milk (St...

Ayurveda Perspectives on Chronobiological concerns in human biology

Does Functions of Pitta Dosha Subtypes Vary as per Prakriti - A cross sectional study.pdf

Effect of Circuit Training and Yogasanas on Cardiovascular Endurance, Inspiratory Capacity and Forced Vital Capacity among Sports Person with Special Reference to Prakriti

The Tridosha theory, which is the cornerstone of Ayurvedic physiology governs all the functions of human body and mind. Tridosha are responsible in determining one's Prakriti and their functional status may vary in both gender of different Prakriti. No research work is available to assess the functions of Dosha by objective parameters. Therefore, t...

Background: Prakriti has important role in prevention, diagnosis, treatment of disease and forecast of future disorders. Infants are more prone to develop various health problems like infections, due to poor immune system. This study shows relation between infantile age morbidity and their Prakriti (physical constitution) in present scenario. Mater...

Introduction: Prakriti determination in an infant helps to live more healthy and prosperous life by changing their rearing plan accordingly to prevent onset of related disorders in future. Validation under this study was planned to evaluate the agreement between Infant’s Prakriti Assessment questionnaire (IPAQ) and PRS-IPA (Prototype Research Softw...

Introduction: Notion of Prakriti as an indispensable concept in Ayurveda has attained remarkable contemplation now a day's owing to its generous effect in clinical practice. Assessment of Prakriti finds a way with huge inter and intra-rater variability resulting in ambiguous results. This study aims to develop a reliable Prakriti assessment tool. M...

The state of health depends on the functional state of Dosha, Dhatu, Mala, Srotas, and Agni. The concept of functional and nutritional interdependence of Dhatu as well as a physiological and pathological aspect of all the seven Dhatu has been described by Ayurveda scholars. The metabolic effect of Meda and Majja Dhatu on other tissues like a muscle...

In the vocation of nutrition science, tremendous research has been executed over the analysis of food, its chemistry, conservation, preparation, consumption, production, deficiencies and so on. Even in present time professionals have pinned their eye over the manner of intake of food too, but the water being very essential element for survival has...

Physiology of sweating and thermoregulation was well conceived by Ancient Ayurveda scholars. The detailed description of Svedavaha Srotas (channels carrying sweat), Sveda (sweat) as Mala (waste), its mechanism of formation on exposure to heat, therapeutic application of heat for inducing sweating under the concept of Svedan Karma (sudation) for pur...

Background: Circuit training and Yogasana are good for the development of physical and physiological fitness of an individual. These training methods are useful to develop the individual’s fitness component like strength, speed, cardiovascular endurance, flexibility and agility as well as physiological components like Forced Vital Capacity (FVC), I...

Introduction: Mother’s milk is considered to be the supreme food for neonates, infants and toddler. It is also regarded as the finest gift form a mother to her baby. The individual characteristic of a person enumerating external and internal body features is known as Prakriti. It is the sense of personality or constitution or temperament of an indi...

Ayurveda and contemporary science comprehends human body as model to understand disease state from very different perspective hence their methodology to describe disease manifestation also seems very different as they observe same problem from different viewpoints. For more precision in healthcare system it is essential that best of both systems ne...

Human physiology and pathophysiology of diseases have been proved to show rhythmic variation in response to temporal factors. This behavior is intertwined in field of clinical physiology in form of chronomedicine and chronotherapy for the better outcomes of treatment. Ayurveda scholars have also described rhythmic variation in biological entities l...

Nutrition is the science that interprets the interaction of food in relation to maintenance, growth, health and disease of an organism. The history of nutrition science and dietetics can be traced back as far as history of civilization across the world. The food habits, cooking and food processing have been evolved with cultural development of huma...

Background and Aim: Prakriti is one of the unique and basic concepts of Ayurveda that explain the individuality, which is decided at the time of conception and later nourished during the intrauterine life. There are so many factors that influence the Prakriti of an infant, one of them is skin color. As par Ayurveda, Vata Prakriti individuals presen...

The period of transition from childhood to adulthood occurs between the ages of 13 to 19 and is termed as teenage or adolescence in case the upper age limit reaches upto 21. Numerous external and internal factors lay influence upon the food choices and dietary pattern of teenagers, which might lead to altered nutritional status in them, such as mal...

Healthy and unhealthy state of a human being depends on normal and abnormal functional state of Tridosha, considering the physiological importance of Dosha in maintenance of homeostasis of the body Tridosha have been called as root (Dosha Dhatu Mala Moolam hi Shariram) of the body. All the functions of the body could be explained in terms of Dosha,...

Introduction: Prakriti (physical and mental constitution) is a unique and one of the basic concepts of Ayurveda that explains the individuality.To assess many important characteristics meant for determination of Prakriti (physical constitution) and to assess the strength of sick baby essential for the planning of therapy, Pramana pariksha(~Anthopom...

Ayurveda is one of the oldest health sciences of the world with concepts of Tridosha and Pr akriti ( Ayurvedic constitution ) being core philosophies . Unique concept of Prakriti makes this pathy a step forward towards perso nalized approach of treatment . In Ayurveda, the physician ’ s bimodal approach of clinical examination ( disease diagnosis a...

According to Ayurveda, the traditional system of healthcare of Indian origin, Agni is the factor responsible for digestion and metabolism. Four functional states (Agnibala) of Agni have been recognized: regular, irregular, intense, and weak. The objective of the present study was to develop and validate a self-assessment tool to estimate Agnibala....

Several questions are being raised regarding the accuracy of the methods of diagnosis and reporting of various clinical parameters according to Ayurveda in recent times. Uniformity in reporting, issues related to inter-rater variability, uniformity in applying statistical tests, reliability, consistency, and validation of various tools, - are some...

Sara is explained in context of 'Dashvidha Pariksha' in Charak Samhita to measure the strength (Bala) of an individual. Haematological parameters are most frequently used in routine investigations. It is obvious that both Sara and haematological parameters are used in ancient and modern science therefore, this study was planned to assess the variat...

Background: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), a pandemic of the 21st century has affected the wellbeing of all the individuals and economies of almost all nations worldwide. COVID-19 pandemic has brought significant psychological influence on the professional education. The objective of the current questionnaire-based study was to access the level of...

Modernization, affluence, science and technological development have lead to still more sedentary life styles. By exposing oneself to all these factors human beings have unknowingly invited a number of diseases. Among which obesity is one of the most hazardous factor. Some Yoga postures like Paschimottanasana and Kapalabhati help to reduce weight w...

Holistic biology of Ayurveda is based on Triguna, Tanmatra, Tridosh, Saptadhatu, Oja, Agni, Ama and Srotas. Srotas are the inner transport system of the body which provide platform for activities of other important bio-factors like three dosh, the seven dhatu, the oja, the agni etc. In Ayurvedic classics the term Srotas is used as dynamic inner tra...

The aim of this study wa s to rule out the hypertensive individuals and to observe the effect of 30 minutes brisk walk for one month on ECG parameters. The ECG is often used as an inexpensive, early and fast screening tool to measure target organ damage in hypertensive individuals. Benefits of brisk walking also extend to people at risk for high bl...

Centella asiatica causes an overall decrease in the yield of central monoamines, implicating the participation of nor epinephrine, dopamine and 5-HT in learning and memory process towards long term retention of information. More recently, a new study showed that components in Centella asiatica have potential for treating Alzheimer's disease and cog...

Pranayama aims by carrying the involuntary functions of the respiratory mechanism within human control. The term pranayama has comprised by two words: Prana + Ayama. Prana is the vital force and energy which permeates the whole universe. Prana is novel subtle than air and can be defined as the energy essence that is within everything in the univers...

This study was planned to assess the effect of exercise in obese type-2 diabetics on anthroprometric and metabolic parameters with respect to prakriti. For the purpose of study, 30 Obese Type Diabetes Mellitus subjects were enrolled (30-55 years of both sex). BMI, Blood sugar level, serum insulin level, HOMA-IR, HOMA-% S and HOMA-% B were done to a...

Walking is an isotonic aerobic exercise and has been associated with reduced blood sugar level in diabetic patients and other physiological changes in observational studies. A study was conducted to determine the effect of isotonic aerobic exercise (walking) on blood sugar level and other important physiological parameters as per Prakriti. This stu...

Rationale: Walking is an isotonic aerobic exercise has been associated with reduced blood pressure and other physiological changes in observational o.p.d. studies. Study was conducted to determine the effect of isotonic aerobic exercise (walking) on blood pressure. Study collection: The present work comprised a study of 84 hypertensive cases, which...

Centella asiatica (Gotu kola) is an imperative herb in Ayurvedic medicine, often mentioned in combination with the related European marsh pennywort (Hydrocotyle vulgaris). About 20 species recounted to Gotu kola cultivate in most parts of the tropic or wet pantropical areas such as rice paddies and also in rocky and higher elevations. Centella asia...

"Ayurveda" is an ancient system of healthcare that is native to India. At present, in India, there are more than 240 colleges that offer a graduate-level degree (Bachelor of Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery-BAMS) in Ayurveda. Even though the Central Council of Indian Medicine, the governing body that monitors the matters related to Ayurveda education...

Objective: To report the prevalence of common age related health problems among elderly people from rural areas of Varanasi district.. Method: Health camps were organized in randomly selected twelve villages in a block of Varanasi district in the months of February and March 2007. A total of 728 elderly people aged 60 years and above were included...

Ojas has been mentioned as best essence of all the dhatu. It resides in the heart and circulates all over the body to maintain the homeostasis .Development of immunity is a process by which body learns from experiences of past infection to deal efficiently with subsequent ones. The term Vyadhi-Kshamatva is first time used in Ayurveda to represent t...

In the present day scenario, Ayurveda is globally being perceived in several contradictory ways. Poor quality of Ayurveda graduates produced as a result of poorly structured and poorly regulated education system is at least one of the important factors responsible for this scenario. The present study was carried out to evaluate the 'Global challeng...

In India there are more than 200 colleges offering graduate level education in Ayurveda. The Central Council of Indian Medicine, established through an Act of parliament in 1970, supervises the matters related to education in Ayurveda. Even though the Council has implemented various educational norms to ensure minimum standards in educational insti...

Centella asiatica is a herb used since ancient times in Ayurveda to improve cognitive functioning. The current study aimed at managing the cognitive decline in elderly with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and other age related problems. MCI is a serious problem which may be converted into Alzheimer disease. Although the concept of MCI is based on t...