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AYURVEDIC FORMULATIONS IN SUTIKA STANYA KSHAYA- A REVIEW STUDY
*Dr. Priyanka Vijay Jamdar and 1Dr. Sunil Sadashiv More
ABSTRACT Women are the main stem of the family. The transformation of female, from a woman to mother is the happiest lifetime event. During pregnancy various types of physiological and anatomical changes takes place in the body of pregnant woman. After delivery body tries to revert back to its pre-pregnant state. A woman is called as „Sutika‟ after the delivery of infant and expulsion of placenta. The lady, who has undergone the phenomenon of prasava, is termed as Sutika. In Ayurveda, detail explanation has given about “Sutika”. A lot of importance has given for breast feeding for proper nourishment of newborn. Breast milk provides the primary source of nutrition for newborns and it is ideal form of feeding in neonates. Newborn must be put on breast feeding for the initial stage of growth and development. Inadequate breast feeding affects health of baby. Stanya kshaya is common problem noticed in mothers. Due to adaptation of western culture women gets exposed to stress and strain. As Stanya is upadhatu of rasa dhatu, whatever treatment is directed towards normalizing rasa kshaya has to be applied for Stanya kshaya too. The drugs mainly having Madhura rasa and vipaka, sheeta virya and guru, snigdha guna will increase the deprived Stanya. In this paper, an effort is made to do scientific description on various Stanya vardhak drugs in Stanya kshaya from ayurvedic literature. Keywords: Sutika, Stanya kshaya, Stanya, Breast feeding. [Download Article] [Download Certifiate] |