A study on the effect of shatkarma (laghu shankha prakshalana and agnisar) on haemoglobin level in the patients of diabetes mellitus

Abstract

The world-wide prevalence and rise of diabetes mellitus over the past two decades is clearly evident from growth of an estimated 30 million cases of this disease in 1985 to 285 million cases in 2010. Based on current trends, the International Diabetes Federation projects that 438 million individuals will have diabetes by the year 2030 (Longo et al., 2012). Anaemia, i.e. lowered haemoglobin level, is a very common complication in the patients of diabetes. Present study is aimed at finding out the effects of practice of Shatkarma (Laghu Shankh Prakshalan and Agnisar), a highly reputed Yogic exercise on haemoglobin level in the patients of diabetes mellitus. The result revealed that post -experiment haemoglobin was higher than that of pre-experiment.