November 2017
Narayan S. Jadhav and Shital D. Ghorband
Abstract
Hypertension is a common disease in present era. Every fifth person is found hypertensive. Most adults develop it, in later half of their life More than 50% of the deaths and disabilities from heart disease and stroke together kill more than 12 million people each year.
It has been predicted that by the year 2020 there will be a 75% increase in the global cardiovascular disease burden occurring. In Ayurvedic texts there is no clear pronunciation of Hypertension; According to Charakacharya, sometimes neither it is possible nor it’s necessary to identify a disease by a name (Anuktavyadhi).
An Ayurvedic physician should attempt to construct the Samprapti (Pathogenesis) of a given clinical condition on the basis of signs, symptoms, acuteness, chronicity, complication with investigative findings in each case and should plan the management accordingly.
Hypertension is dreadful disease which is multifactorial in its origin with a chronic aetio-pathogenesis when thought adapting the principle of Dosha, Dhatu and Mala theory the pathology seems to be centered on Shonita Dhatu and Tridosha. So it fall in the Madhyam Rogamarga (intermediate route) & hence it is Yapya disease (difficult to cure).
