Abstract

ROLE OF UDVARTANA ON PSYCHOPHYSICAL PARAMETERS OF HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS - A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL

Vivek Kumar Mishra*, Dilipkumar K. V. and Neha Mishra

ABSTRACT

The world community on healthcare is on a lookout for more appropriate life style modifications to prevent the life threatening non communicable life style disorders. Āyurvēda has many of them in its store in the form of dinacaryā and ŗtucharyā. Udvartana is one among them. Udvartana is massage technique of whole body below the neck with powders of medicinal plants. Udvartana alleviates vitiated kapha dośa, reduces excess of fat in the body, increase the stability of body and promotes the excellence of skin. Many of the life style modification practices are not in use as a preventive measure. Probably due to practical difficulty, lack of awareness and lack of convincing evidence for its efficacy. No studies have been conducted for evaluating the role of udvartana as mentioned in our classics and the psychophysical changes in human body after udvartana. Hence this study is aimed to prove the effect of udvartana on psychophysical parameters of healthy volunteer to prevent kapha and meda related diseases. Considering overall effect of udvartana significant changes were observed in physical parameters such as Body Weight, Body Mass Index, Waist Circumference, Hip Circumference, Waist Hip Ratio and Skin Fold Thickness, Hand Grip Strength, score of Skin Texture and physical domain of WHO QOL in study group and also significant changes were observed in psychological parameters such as score of stress inventory scale and psychological domain of WHO QOL and improvement in quality of sleep in study group. So finally it is concluded that udvartana has significant role on psychophysical parameters of healthy volunteers.

Keywords: Udvartana, Psychophysical parameters, Health.