A CONCEPTUAL STUDY OF HRUDROGA AND ITS NIDANA (CAUSATIVE FACTORS)

Abstract

Nowadays, life is becoming very stressful and fast. As many diseases originate due to this hectic lifestyle. One of the important diseases is Hrudroga (ischemic heart disease), which is responsible for many deaths at an early age. According to latest data of American Heart Association, Cardiovascular disease including heart attack and stroke remain the No.1 killer of men and women causing 36 percent of all the deaths per year. Changes in diet patterns, dietary habits and lifestyle, social and environmental changes have leads to cardiac disease and many more disease.According to Ayurveda, all heart diseases come under the broad classification of Hrudroga. In view of the increasing incidence of cardiac disorders in the present times this aspect assumes added importance. In comparison to modern pathology and aetiology, Ayurvedic concept of Hrudroga is different and different  to understand. Among the five types of Hrudroga described, in Vatika Hrudroga Ayurveda seems to have conceived the disesase entity that comes under ischemic heart disease.