Effect of vadavanala ras in medo roga wsr to dyslipidemia - an overview

Now a days due to consumption of improper diet, sedentary life style, and environmental factors various metabolic disorders are arising. Medoroga is one such disease mentioned in classical texts. Medo roga is a condition in which due to various etiological factors there is an excessive increase in the medodhatu and decrease in Medodhatvagni. Consequently the other body tissues do not get properly nourished because of the channels being blocked with medas. Dyslipidemia is a condition which shares a lot of similarities with Medoroga. Dyslipidemia is a disorder characterized by abnormally high concentrations of total Cholesterol, VLDL,LDL, triglycerides and decreased concentration of HDL in the blood caused by abnormal lipoprotein metabolism and has risk of producing various complications like cardiovascular diseases, obesity, hypertension, atherosclerosis etc. Alarmingly the prevalence of dyslipidemia defined according to NCEP (National Cholesterol Education Programme Guidelines) in Indians is very high with 79% of subjects having atleast one lipid abnormality, with decreased high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) levels in 72.3% subjects, hypertriglyceridemia in 29.5% subjects and elevated low density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) levels in 11.8% of subjects1.Hence management of dyslipidemia is necessary. Agni is responsible for various metabolic activities and Medoroga is mainly imbalance of agni. Vadavanalarasa is mentioned in the management of medoroga. Probably Vadavanalaras can correct the Agni at dhatu levels thus breaking the samprapthi of medo roga. As the ingredients of this aushada has mainly laghu, ruksha, teeksna etc properties, these may help in correcting the Dyslipidemia.