Role of Yoga and Ayurveda in Decreasing Cardio- Vascular Mortality

Cardio-vascular mortality is the flaring global problem. According to WHO, it stood on the top with 29.34 percent in the leading causes of global death. In recent years, promotive and protective health care has been emerging as a major approach throughout the world. This trend is really a convincing convergence of contemporary medicine towards the traditional approaches of Yoga and Ayurveda in preventive cardiology.
Yoga and Ayurveda, the ancient Indian medicine system has several preventive measures to reduce the cardiac mortality. In this study different dynamics of Yoga like various pranayama and Asanas and Ayurvada like Nidan Parivarjan (Elimination of cause), Ahara-Vihar (Food habits and Life style interventions), Aushadhi (Cardio-protective drug) –“Rasona Ksheerpaka” (a preparation of Allium sativum and milk) have been considered. These interventions have been found effective to address the regression of contributing factors of cardio-vascular disease like hypertension, high blood sugar, dyslipidaemia, high uric acid in blood, stress, obesity, smoking and reducing the mortality rate significantly. The outcome of this study revealed a new dimension of integrated approach of Yoga and Ayurvedic interventions in preventive cardiology and reducing the mortality of cardio-vascular disease.