CLINICAL STUDIES ON LEARNING DISORDER IN AYURVEDA - A REVIEW

Learning disorders are defined as problems in securing of developmental skills, academic achievement, social adjustment and secondarily emotional growth and development as a consequence of perceptual and linguistic processing deficits. The prevalence of learning disorders is 15.17 % in Southern India. In ayurvedic classics no separate narrative of such disease is seen, but many times delayed developmental skills such as Vāksḳalanam, alpamedha-smṛti etc. are stated and different remedies are considered for them. The Indriyās (sense faculties), Manas (mind), Buddhi (intellect) are comprised in the process of Jñānotpatti. Any altered function in these components hampers the learning process. Even if several studies have been conducted in Ayurveda on Learning disorder, the area remains still non conclusive. This is an attempt to report the studies from the postgraduate institute for Ayurveda psychiatry, with the available conclusions so as to augment the accessible possibilities in the clinical practice.