Abstract

UNDERSTANDING GRAHANI THROUGH GUT AND BRAIN RELATION & IT’S MANAGEMENT “GRAHANI AND BRAIN”

Dr. Shivaprasad Hudeda MD(Ayu) and *Dr. Noor Fathima BAMS

ABSTRACT

Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is one of several highly prevalent, multi-symptom gastrointestinal motility disorders that have a wide clinical spectrum and is one of the most common conditions encountered in clinical practice but one of the least well understood. Grahani is an organ situated between āmāshaya (stomach) and pakvāshaya (colon) which is the main seat of digestive glands comprising of digestive juices and where proper digestion of the food takes place. It is also responsible for retention of food for sufficient time for proper digestion and assimilation of the nutrient from the digested food. Dysfunction of Grahani is termed as Grahani Dosha. This condition may lead to formation of Ama which is the cause of many other diseases[1] (Charaka Chikitsa 15/45- 49). It has rightly been said by Vagbhata that all ailments in the body, specially diseases of alimentary tract arise due to the malformation of AGNI. IBS is also one among such diseases which occurs due to the mandagni. And psychological factors like krodha, shoka, bhaya, kama etc. which results in Agnidushti leading to Grahanidosha[2] (c,chi 15/71). IBS has strong Psyho-somatic base. No cure has been found out to the disease. But only symptomatic treatment & assurance is given to the patient by the modern medical science. As world is looking forward for Ayurveda for safe treatment modalities, it is essential to find out the effective therapeutic procedures from our science. In this paper an effort will be made to explore the utility of drugs that relieves stress (manasika bhavas) in grahani roga.

Keywords: Grahani, Grahani Roga, Manasika Bhavas.