Anxiety disorder are a category of psychiatric diagnosis that are related to excessive nervourness, fear, imbalance and worries.

Excessive anxiety seen in

  1. Panic disorder
  2. Anxiety disorder
  3. Obsessive disorder
  4. Compulsive disorder
  5. Post-Traumatic disorder

Symptoms:

  1. Insomnia
  2. Stomach-upset
  3. Fatigue
  4. Sweating
  5. Tremor
  6. Concentration Problem

Ayurveda Management: Anxiety disorder treatment in ayurveda takes a comprehensive views of an individual physical, emotional and spritual conditions. Pranavata weakness the nervous system and triggers mental imbalance. It also weakens the neuro-hormonal system and nerve impulses.

Ayurveda recommends a variety of herbs that warm and rejuvnate our nervous system. Ayurveda treatment of anxiety disorder would involve curbing aggravated Pranavata and increasing sattva guna which envisages a stable and peaceful mind through self-realization and self control, and appropriate changes in diet and life style.

In ayurveda satvavajaya chikitsa is a non-phrmacological approach aimed at control of mind and stress causing factors.

Benefits of Ayurveda treatment:

  1. Promotes better sleep
  2. Improves concentration
  3. Relaxes mind
  4. Reduces the level of stress hormones
  5. Reduces tension

Depression is a common illness all over the world. Most people often pay less attention and seek medical advice for this illness. Depression is described as a brain disorder, which affects a person's mood and thus interfers with the person's daily life.

Causes:

  1. Alcohol or Drug abuse
  2. Sleeping disorder
  3. Stressful events

Symptoms:

  1. Anxiety
  2. Forgetful
  3. Insomnia
  4. Anger
  5. Irritability
  6. Self-destructive behaviour
  7. Dullness
  8. Excess sleep
  9. Violent mindset
  10. Suicidal ideation

Ayurvedic Management: Our mind is regulated by there energies satva, rajah, tamas. If their quantum is disturbed or deviated, it can create a condition called 'Altered Nervous Function' - which can lead to many health issues.

Ayurveda believes removing or staying away from the cause is half the treatments. So analysing and rooting out the cause for depression is the main line of treatments

  1. Thought process
  2. Counselling
  3. Correcting the dosha imbalance
  4. Strengthening the ojus
  5. Treatment includes panchakarma, internal medications, food and life style change.

Insomnia is the inability to fall asleep at night for many hours or inability to have a sound sleep, which deprives one's natural rest and interferes with activites during the day.

Causes:

  1. Family pressure
  2. Stress
  3. Medical causes
  4. Work pressure, Menopause stage

Complications:

  1. Trouble focusing
  2. Anxiety
  3. Health problems like hypertension, obesity and depression

Symptoms:

  1. Difficulty in falling sleep
  2. Waking up frequently
  3. Unrefreshing sleep
  4. Waking up two early
  5. Difficulty concentrating
  6. Drowsiness, Irriatability

Ayurveda Management: Why sleep is important?

Sleep is as important as diet in balance and maintaining the body health. Sleep is the time when your body can repair and heal itself.

The mind and emotions become balanced through sleep. It brings relief to most of the associated factors of insomnia such as stress, anxiety and relaxes the nervous system.

Treatment protocol includes

  • Panchakarma procedures
  • Healthy life style
  • Pacifying medicines
  • OCD is characterized by unreasonable thoughts and fears that lead to compulsive behaviours.

    Symptoms:

    1. Checking
    2. Contamination
    3. Symmetry and ordering
    4. Ruminations and intrusive thoughts

    Treatment protocol:

    Ayurveda treatment of OCD would involve curbing aggravated Pranavata and increasing satva guna, which envisages a stable and peaceful mind through self-realization, self controland appropriate changes in diet and life style.

    Treatment includes,

    1. Nasyam
    2. Talam
    3. Dhara
    4. Rasayana
    5. Chikitsa
    6. as for maintanance of treatment efficacy.

    Dementia is a general term used for progressive loss of brain functions that affects the ability to live and increase dependence.

    Causes:

    1. Brain injury
    2. Stroke
    3. Brain tumors
    4. Alcoholism
    5. Drug toxicity
    6. Thyroid
    7. Heavy metal poisoning
    8. Alzheimer's disease
    9. Parkinsons disease
    10. Age factor

    Symptoms:

    1. Loss of memory
    2. Communication problem
    3. Misplacing things
    4. Loss of creativity
    5. Personality changes
    6. Problems in dealing with money
    7. Mood changes
    8. Learning capacity

    Ayurveda Management: Management of dementia is challenging and gratifying. Early detection of the problem and early starting of the treatment is required to prevent the progerss of the disease.

    Ayurveda Management with

    1. Rasayana Therapy
    2. Panchakarma Therapy
    Ayurvedic medications and therapy techniques for the management of neuro-degenerative diseases especially dementia are very effective.

    Modern life is full of hassles, deadlines, frustrations and demands. Stress isn't always bad. In small doses, it can help you perform under pressure and motivate you to do your best. Butwhen you are constantly running in emergency mode, your mind and body pay the price.

    Stress affects the mind, body and behavior in many ways and everyone experiences stress differently.

    Causes:

    1. Major life changes
    2. Work
    3. Relationship difficulties
    4. Financial problems
    5. Being too busy
    6. Children and family
    7. Personal habits

    Symptoms:

    1. Memory problem
    2. Inability to concentrate
    3. Poor judgement
    4. Seeing only the negative
    5. Anxious or racing thoughts
    6. Constant worrying
    7. Short temper
    8. Depression
    9. Loss of sex drive
    10. Chest pain
    11. Less sleep
    12. Nervous habit
    13. Isolating yourself from others

    Many health problems caused by stress:

    1. Pain of any kind
    2. Heart disease
    3. Digestive problem
    4. Sleep problem
    5. Depression
    6. Obesity
    7. Auto - immune disease
    8. Skin conditions eczema, Psoriasis

    Ayurvedic Approach: The treatment is based on the mind-body constitution of the person and which dosha is in imbalance. Ayurveda offers a more effective treatment of stress without negative side-effects and the real possibility of prevention

    Ayurveda methods not only increase the balance in the body, they also progressively raise the overall level of inner contentment. To increase the coping capacity of the bady can be increased by

    1. Life style modification
    2. Dietary interventions
    3. Internal medications, external treatment
    All these being well organized under the umbrella of rasayana therapy. External therapies or panchakarma procedures include
    1. Nasyam
    2. Shirodhara

    Benefits: Ayurveda helps a person come to a better understanding of themselves and their relationship to the world around them. By adopting a healthy life style, Ayurveda helps people reduce stress. By reducing stress each person can attain optimum health and peace of mind.

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