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Yoga- complementary and alternate medicine par excellence

In the Readers Digest family guide to Alternative Medicine more than 140 therapies, remedies and self help treatments from acupressure to Zen meditation have been mentioned including yoga. It states that in the last few years yoga has begun to be used more and more as a therapy to help in the management of particular ailments especiallyof stress and stress related problems Because it works on body and mind - yoga is recommended for the relief of conditions such as heart disease and asthma which are amongst other ailments that respond to yoga therapy.

In 1983 a yoga biomedical group in Britain conducted a poll of 2700 people who practised yoga and were suffering from one or more of 20 different ailments. For each condition over 70 per cent of those polled said that yoga had helped them to improve.

Research

The table below shows the number of people who answered 'yes' to the condition they suffered ( column 1 )and column 2 shows the number of cases and column 3 the percentage helped

The World Health Organization has dedicated a full Chapter on yoga in its book Traditional Medicine in Asia published by its Regional Office for Asia and fully recognises yoga as complimentary and alternate medicine

Considerable research has been conducted on the ability of yoga to improve various disorders of the cardiovascular system which is a major health problem the world over.

Blood pressure and heart rate can both be lowered by the simplest scientifically proved asana - shavasana .Yoga improves cardiovascular efficiency and the relaxation Techniques of yoga are known to have a significantly beneficial impact on weight control , blood pressure and high blood sugar levels.

Tulpule used yoga in the treatment of myocardial infarction. He found that simple yoga postures were beneficial to 102 male patients with myocardial infarction who practiced for an year The famous father of prevention and reversal of heart disease Dean Ornish

and Bimal Chhajer have reversed coronary arterial occlusion using meditation , life style changes and yoga inter alia.

Cancer

At Apollo Cancer Hospital , Chennai, India, Yogacharya Arun Kumar and his team have worked on hundreds of cancer patients and found that yoga is highly effective in contro;;ing , reversing and healing cancer. The regular practice of yoga helps the practitioners to handle their own selves physically, mentally , emotionally and spiritually thus providing a holistic therapeutic approach to cancer.

Through special meditation, visualization and relaxation techniques one will be able to reprogram the mental thought patterns and produce positive thoughts to counter cancer.

The Government of India has initiated the AYUSH programme for primary health care in India very successfully.

A - Ayurveda

Y - Yoga and

Naturopathy

U - Unani

S - Siddha

H - Homeopathy

AYUSH is most cost effective and easily accessible to the over one billion population of India.

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