As we moved into rapid modernization, the lifestyle of an individual has become sedentary along with lack of exercise and there is increased popularity of fast foods leading to impairment of metabolism in an individual making him prone to series of disorders called as lifestyle disorders. Sthaulya can be included under santarpanajanya vyadhi as "Medo roga". It is a condition caused by derangement of agni, leads to amarasa, there is medodhatvagnimandya leading to improper formation of medo dhatu in excess, More than half of the Coronary Heart Diseases (CHD) are attributable to abnormalities in the levels and metabolism of plasma lipids and lipoproteins. In India, persons suffering from CHD have increased in last 20 years.According to WHO, raised serum cholesterol levels is one of the top ten causes of death throughout the world. Several modern drugs are available for the management of Sthaulya where most of them are potentially toxic, costly and are contraindicated in hepatic or renal impairment, gall bladder disease and pregnancy. There are many effective medicines and therapies are described in different classics of Ayurveda for treating Sthaulya. Ayurveda can intervene by modifying the risk factors aiming at the prevention.
Typhoid fever is an acute illness associated with fever that is most often caused by the Salmonella typhi bacteria. Once the bacteria is ingested it quickly multiplies within the stomach, liver or gall bladder and finally enters the blood stream causing symptoms like fever, headache etc. these cases as of 2010 caused about 190000 deaths up from 137000 in 1990 in whole world, India, Pakistan and Egypt are also known high risk area for developing this disease. A clinical study comprising of 15 patients of either sex attending OPD clinic of AMVH Hubli and presenting with clinical manifestation of Typhoid confirmed by Widal test were selected for observational study. All the patients received Sanjivani Vati 2 tab. bid with Kiratadisapta Kashaya (20 ml) twice daily after food. It was given for 21 days and follow up period was of 1 month with weekly visit. From the result obtained we can conclude that therapy with this Ayurvedic combination of drugs shown significant relief (p less than 0.001) in symptoms after 21 days of treatment.
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