Open AccessA SURVEY STUDY ON THE ROLE OF DINCHARYA AND RITUCHARYA IN HEALTHY LIFESTYLE W.S.R. TO MAINTAIN THE BIOLOGICAL CLOCK
Author(s) -
Mukesh Saini,
Rajesh Sharma,
Dinesh C Sharma
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international ayurvedic medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2320-5091
DOI - 10.46607/iamj0309092021
Subject(s) - medicine , epidemiological transition , environmental health , plague (disease) , tuberculosis , malaria , disease , trachoma , urbanization , cause of death , typhoid fever , immunology , population , economic growth , pathology , economics
Today's new world has been emerged very rapidly i.e., "lifestyle disorders". This world is concerned with chronic non-communicable diseases which have been taken the form of epidemics in the current era. Ayurveda is an abso- lute science of lifestyle. An ideal lifestyle has been described for health maintenance. This described lifestyle ter- minates all the changes which are occurred due to time. Ayurveda gives more emphasis on the prevention of dis- eases than treatment. Therefore, it is not only limited to the management and treatment of diseases.1 India during the epidemiological transition. The major killer diseases of the past were the plague, smallpox, cholera, trachoma, guinea worm etc. Many of the major killer diseases have been eradicated but many of them still visit the people intermittently. Tuberculosis, malaria, typhoid fever, meningitis, sexually transmitted diseases are the area of ma- jor concern at present. In a developing country like India, about 40 per cent of the deaths are still due to infec- tious, parasitic, respiratory diseases compared with about 8 per cent in developed countries. In addition to this due to changing lifestyle, living standards, some demographical factors, urbanization, industrialization, and wide- spread effects of technology etc. Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) has emerged as the major killer disease in the present era. It is accounting for over 60% of all deaths. According to a World Health Organization (WHO) report (2002), cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) will be the major cause of deaths and disabilities in India by 2020. NCDs cause significant morbidity and mortality both in urban and rural populations, with considerable loss in potentially productive years (aged 35-64 years) of life. Besides the NCDs, tuberculosis like communicable diseas- es is a huge health burden in India at present. Most of the developed countries have controlled tuberculosis even much before the advent of BCG or chemotherapy, whereas India accounts for nearly one-fifth (20%) of the global burden of tuberculosis at present times. There were approximately 29.8 million patients with cardiovascular dis- ease in India during the year 2003 and an estimated 1.5 million deaths per year due to the same cause. The total numbers of stroke cases in India in the year 2004 were about 6.36 million with about 0.63 million deaths and there are approximately 2 to 2.5 million cancer patients at any given point of time, with around 7-9 lakh new cas- es being detected each year and around half of these cases die each year in India.13Keywords: Ayurveda, lifestyle disorders, non-communicable diseases, tuberculosis, patients.