Poster Presentation ANZOS-OSSANZ-AOCO Joint Annual Scientific Meeting 2017

Management of obesity (sthaulya) by Lekhana Basti (emaciating/desiccating medicated enema) (#227)

Shital Bhagiya 1 , Dr. Hardik Chandarana 2 , Dr. Banshi saboo 2 , Anuradha Saboo 2
  1. Department of Panchkarma, Institue of Post Graduate Teaching and Research in Ayurveda, Jamnagar, Gujarat, India
  2. Diabetes Care & Hormone Clinic, Dia care, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

Obesity leads to severe threat to health which causes Hypertension, Diabetes Mellitus, cardio vascular diseases, osteoarthritis etc. Obesity is not only a cosmetic problem. Acharya Charaka gave the methodology of Sthaulya which can be correlated with obesity. Permanent solution is needed for this serious problem.

Ayurveda, the 5000 years old science of healthy living has solution to this current problem without any side effects to the individual. These should be a major shift in awareness. Ayurveda does not treat obesity; it treats a person who is obese.

Panchkarma (five purification procedure) is said to be very effective treatment for any diseases although there are many treatments available. So, present study was carried out to evaluate efficacy of Lekhana Basti (emaciating/desiccating medicated enema) which is the prime and said “half treatment” among all procedures. It was described by Acharya Sushruta. 15 patients were selected and were given treatment in a special schedule of 15 days. After 15 days assement was done, Lekhana Basti played significant role in all parameters of obesity without side effect.

Highly significant results were achieved in BMI, Weight Gain and all other subjective parameters and also in objective parameters like chest, abdomen, arm, mid-calf circumference and skin fold thickness etc. Complete remission was found in 13.33% of the patients, marked improvement in 40.0% and Moderate improvement was found in 46.67% of the patients.