Understanding the Nidanas of Panduroga – An Observational Study in students

Abstract

The concept of prevention, often ignored by society, has shown to play a major role in individual as well as public health care systems. It is thereby important to understand and convey efficiently to the health seeker about specific and general causes of various pathologies. Pandu (anaemia), a disease condition that relates to Iron deficiency anemia, affects more than half of the women in India. The causes are generally presumed to be excessive work or diet deficient in enough nutrition. Other factors like the nature of food are not usually taken into consideration as such concepts are alienated from the science of food. This article assesses the role of dietary factors as explained in the samhitas in the pathogenesis of anaemia. It is observed that most of the diagnosed cases are found to be indulging in the said etiological factors to different extents.