AYURVEDIC APPROACH FOR MANAGEMENT OF AGEING AND RELATED DISORDER

• DOI: 10.7897/2277-4343.04117
• Publication Date: 2013-03-01T12:00:13Z
• Authors: Mamta Tiwari; Anurag Pandey; Poonam Chaudhari; Pawankumar Godatwar; Arvind Kumar Gupta
• Keywords: 03 medical and health sciences; 0302 clinical medicine; 3. Good health

World Health Day 2012 wa s cele brated on April 7, 2012 to mark the anniversary of the founding of the WHO in 1948. This year's theme wa s "Active ageing: Good health adds life to years." As the life expectancy of individuals has improved due to better health care delivery system , an old age boom is anticipated in 21 st century. Problems related to old age are also likely to be increased largely . Ayurvedic seers and sages were well aware of problems of ag eing since long back. Old age ( jara) is described as a spontaneous disease in Ayurvedic texts. Gradual weakling of normal physiological functions, lowered metabolic activities and gradual loss of body strength characteri zes it . This can be accompanied with disturbance in mental faculties. Hum an starts thinking that this is inevitable and he / she must reconcile with old age b ut it has been observed, that the above mentioned symptoms of senility manifest as early as in forty or fifty years of age. This sort of pre mature aging is definitely a stage when one must think of adopting some prophylax is so that he / she may save himself / herself from getting in grip of old age.