A CLINICAL STUDY OF EFFICACY OF VIRECHAN KARMA ON INSULIN RESISTANCE WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO SANTARPANJANYA VIKAR: A PILOT STUDY

Insulin resistance is a pathological condition in which cells fails to respond normally to the human insulin. Obesity, chronic inflammation is associated with insulin resistance and it is responsible for the development of type 2 diabetes mellitus. Virechana karma has been showed effective result in insulin resistance especially in Santarpanjanyavikar (Medorog) by reducing Strotorodha( obstruction) and Shotha (inflammation) and improve action of insulin. Patients with Santarpanjanyavikar (Medorog) with HOMA IR more than 2 were planned to Virechana karma. Parameter for insulin resistance ,HOMA IR reduced in all patients after Virechana karma . So we can conclude that Virechana karma is effective in insulin resistance. In this pilot study sample size was too small, larger sample size is needed to confirm the results