PROSPECT’S OF TRAYUSHNADYAM LOHA ON OBESITY: A REVIEW

Abstract

In Present era, Obesity has become most common and distressing disease caused by eating too much fatty food and sugars, day sleeping, lack of physical activity pro-voked excessive accumulation of fat in the body that may impair health. In Ayurveda obesity are given under the heading of Medoroga. It is the disease of Medovaha Strotasa Dushti. There are so many formulations for treatment of obesity among them Trayushnadyam Loha is one such kharaliya Rasayana which is widely used in Medoroga(Obesity), Prameha(Diabetes), Kushtha(Skin disease) etc. It is an important herbo-minerals formula-tion, mainly consist of Loha bhasma, Trayushan, Triphala, Chavya, Chitrak, Bakuchi, Saindhava, Bidlavana, Aoudbhida lavan and Souvarchal lavan. These all are helpful for de-molish the pathophysiology of medoroga and their consequences. There are various refer-ences of Trayushnadyam Loha in classics of Rasashashtra and Sangraha books. There are different formulation with same name found in literature. By reviewing the properties of in-gredients, it may effective in all the indications mentioned. The present paper has collected all the classical references of Trayushnadyam Loha and attempted to clarify the context of given references.