CLINICAL AND DIAGNOSTIC STUDY OF MADHUMEHA W.S.R. TO DIABETES MELLITUS
Abstract
Ayurveda is a natural health care system that originated in India since the beginning of civilization. It is described by Acharaya Charak that to achieve purushartha chatushtaya, Arogya is necessary. Ayurveda strongly emphasize on preventive and promotive aspects of health rather than curative. The concepts of Dincharya, Ritucharya, Sadvritta,and Achara Rasayana along with guidelines for healthy diet and lifestyle is well established in Ayurveda, but in current scenario, hardly any one follows it’s aresult ,there is tremendous rise in lifestyle disorders as pandemics, Diabetes being most menacing among them. Diabetes is fourth leading cause of global death by disease. Type 2 DM is responsible for approximately 90% of cases. Therefore today's India called nation of DM. Madhumeha "Richman's disease", since Vedic period, is familiar to mankind. Madhumeha is a disease in which mutra (Urine) of the patient attains similar property like those of madhu (Honey). It is documented as one among the twenty obstinate urinary disorders i.e. Prameha. It is also explained that, when the other Prameha are left untreated, this lead to the condition called Madhumeha. So Madhumeha can also be considered as an advanced condition or stage of Prameha. Diabetes Mellitus is a chronic disorder of carbohydrate metabolism, marked by hyperglycemia and glycosuria and resulting from inadequate production or use of insulin. Traditionally, Madhumeha can be equated with diabetes mellitus, as many similarities in view of their causative factors, pathogenesis, signs and symptoms, classification, complications and also in the treatment has been found.
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