Contributory factors of disease diagnosis: Review as per Ayurveda
Abstract
Ayurveda believes to eliminate disease completely. There are different causative factors of various diseases these factor may be food, life style or imbalance of tridosha. As per ayurveda disease diagnosis play important role in disease treatment and different disease need different consideration since every individual having specific Prakriti. Since ayurveda treats diseases as per the constitution of an individual thus it is known as a highly accurate and personalized method of analyzing diseases. Mainly all diseases are caused by aggravation of the tridosha i.e. vata, pitta and kapha. In ayurveda “Nidana†encompasses various approaches of disease diagnosis. As per ayurveda various factors contributes significantly towards disease diagnosis. This article describes all those factors which need to be considered for the proper diagnosis and treatment of disease.
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