Symptoms:
- Weight gain
- Excessive sweating
- Increased abdominal fat
- Clothes feeling tight and need a larger size.
- Having extra fat around the waist.
- A higher than normal body mass index and waist circumference.
Obesity is described as ‘Medoroga’ in Ayurveda. It is said that it is comparatively easy to help an underweight person, rather than an overweight person. The overweight problem can be due to an actual increase in the fat component (MedaDhatu), or it can be due to malfunctioning. These, accordingly, will need different approaches. In very few cases it can be an offshoot of other metabolic disorders.
Body is made of 7 Dhatus (Rasa, Rakta, Maans, Meda, Asthi, Majja and Shukra), but in an obese person Meda is excessively nourished and remaining other Dhatus get malnourished. Kapha gets accumulated in between. When Kapha increases in abnormal fashion, Fat metabolism gets hampered and person becomes obese.
Role of medicines with dietary correction is to remove obstructed Kapha and let all Dhatus nourish equally. It is not only the quantity of food that is important, but also the type of food one eats. It is not always necessary to go on a restricted diet, but qualitative changes and food habits can bring remarkable changes.
Shri Vishwanand Ayurvedic Treatment Protocol:
1) Dietary and lifestyle modification
2) Shaman: Oral Ayurvedic medicine according to Prakruti (Body Structure) and symptoms of patient.
3) Shodhan:
Panchkarma
Basti
Vaman
Udvartan
Abhyang
4) Yog and Pranayam
