This is presentation by Dr. Gayatridevi on Heart Care Ayurveda.
Text of Heart Care Ayurveda
1. Heart care-Ayurveda Dr. Gayatridevi Ayurvedic Consultant
2. What is heart?
A fist shaped organ located in the left side of the chest
A miraculous organ that beats 70 times in a minute in adults.
Starts beating from 23 days age of intra uterine lifeand keeps beating until.
It beats 1,00,000 times a day and 2.5 billion times in life time (on average)
3. What it does?
Circulates oxygen rich blood to each and every cell of our body.
Right sidecollects oxygen poor blood from the body and sends to lungs to get more oxygen and get rid off carbon di oxide.
Left heart receives oxygen rich blood from the lungs & re circulates it to the muscles and organs.
4. Why does it break?
Coronary arteries supply oxygenated blood to heart muscles.
Any block in the arteries chest pain/ death depending upon the block level.
5. Block!! Why?
Fats get deposited in the inner walls of the arteries-called plaques.
Plaques are combination of
Fats
Cholesterol
Cell waste products
Proteins and scar like tissues.
6. Risk factors
Fixed factors
Inherited factors
Medical factors
Life style factors
7. Fixed factors
Gender-men more prone than pre menopausal women.
Agemore prone after 45 years
EthnicityIndians are in the list of prone groups
8. Inherited factors
Chances high if there is family history of first degree relative with coronary heart disease
One parent has CHD- 50% chance that the child might get CHD
9. Medical factors
Diabetes
High blood pressure
Peripheral artery disease
Chronic infections
10. Life style factors
Smoking
Weight control
Exercise
Stress
11. Smoking
Smoking
lowers good cholesterol,
lowers bodys natural anti oxidants,
make the arterial walls more prone to plaque and rupture,
Increases the tendency of blood to clot CHD, heart attack and stroke
12. Weight control
BMI- higher than 25 increases risk
Waist circumference-more than 40 inches in men, 35 inches in women-increase the risk
13. Exercise
Exercise is like diet
Regular, vigorous exercise-prevents CHD
Regular exercise can put you on a road to cure
14. Stress
Stress increases blood pressure and heart rate.
Stress is a risk factor for CHD
Two choices
Reduce stress in life
Learn to handle stress betterthrough breathing techniques, meditation or exercise
15. What Ayurveda says
Hridroga= Heart disease
Hridrogas-5 types
Vataja
Pittaja
Kaphaja
Tridoshaja
Krimija
16. Causative factors
Sarira karanascertain health problems like fevers, ama sandharana (rheumatism), mada (intoxication with alcohol), vega dharana (suppression of natural urges), bashpa nigrahana (suppressing tears)
Manasika karanascinta (worry), bhaya/trasa (fear or frightening)
Vihara karanasvyayama (exercise), srama(strain), gurubhara vahana (carrying heavy weights)
And so on
17. Prevention of Heart diseases Ayurvedic care
1. Nidana parivarjanam-avoid the causative factors.
Proper Ahara vihara
Oshadhis
18. Ahara
Have old rice, green gram, barley, meet of animals with less fat, horse gram, snake gourd, bitter gourd, ash gourd, butter milk of goat and sheep, old jaggery in regular diet
Have more vegetables and fruits-high fibre diet reduces the risk
Large quantities of onion and garlic decrease blood lipids and glucose, increase clot dissolution
Limit coffee consumptioncoffee increases-BP, LDL cholesterol, TG and heart disease
