AN OBSERVATIONAL STUDY TO EVALUATE THE EFFECACY OF ANULOM -VILOM ON BLOOD PRESSURE

Abstract

Yoga, meditation and breathing exercises are need of today's high pace society. Changing life style along with fast food habits had lead to many disorders like high blood pressure. Today hypertension is becoming a silent killer as it is lately diagnosed and many a times miss treated. Mental factors like stress, sleep deprivation, anxiety, mental confusion etc, has direct effect on blood pressure. Breathing exercises like Anulom - Vilom have immediate significant effect on high blood pressure. Seventeen subjects randomly selected from SVNHT'S Ayurved College hospital was studied for effect of Anulom- Vilom on their blood pressure. An observational study was carried out for single sitting trial. In one trial effect of Anulom -Vilom conducted for 10 minutes in morning with empty stomach - Anashan showed mark effect on their blood pressure. It helped to optimize the blood pressure in maximum subjects in one sitting; this showed the immediate applied effect of Anulom- Violm Pranayama.