Exploring the pharmacological and pharmacotherapeutic effects of yoga

Parasuraman, Subramani; Wen, Lim Ee; Zhen, Khor Ming; Hean, Chin Kean; Sam, Aaseer Thamby

doi:10.5530/ptb.2016.1.2

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“…The regular practice of yoga thus expected to provide excellent support in stress management. 5 Yoga also helps in modulating the sympathetic activity and it may even control the endocrine secretions released during stress. 5 The impact of yoga in controlling type 2 diabetes mellitus has been a recent study interest.…”

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“…5 Yoga also helps in modulating the sympathetic activity and it may even control the endocrine secretions released during stress. 5 The impact of yoga in controlling type 2 diabetes mellitus has been a recent study interest. Such results shown a significant effect in regulating the body functions, improvement in glycemic control and reducing the side effects to patients already taking anti diabetic medications.…”

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Effect of Nadi Shuddhi Pranayama, Kati Chakrasana and Vakrasana on Depression and Glycemic Control in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

Danasekaran¹,

Raju²,

Th³

et al. 2018

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Introduction: Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a predominant source of morbidity in India. The incidence of depression is found to be increased among type 2 DM patients that makes the glycemic control as an exhaustive task and also leads to increasing the risk of diabetes induced complications. Aim: The present study aimed at studying the effect of three yoga on depression and glycemic control in type 2 DM patients. Methods: Nadi Shuddhi Pranayama, Kati Chakrasana and Vakrasana were taught to the recruited participants and clinical characteristic were measured at baseline, visit 1 and visit 2. Results: The mean FBS, PPBS and RBS values of the participants during the two visits were found to be decreased from 131.33±12.89 to 122.33 ± 10.63 (p <0.0001), 183.3 ±28.02 to 167.11 ± 13.95 (p=0.0052) and 181.81 ± 20.8 to 169.22± 21.79 (p=0.0050) respectively. The HAM D score of SIGH D tool from baseline to visit 2 was found to be reduced from 9 to 3.44 (p<0.0001). Conclusion: The study showed the evidence of the effectiveness of yoga in the management of depression and glycemic control in type 2 diabetes mellitus patients This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.

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confidence: 99%