Arjunadi Anubhoot Yog in Hypertension: A Review Study

One of key risk factor for cardiovascular disease is hypertension or raised blood pressure is major risk for cardiovascular disease and ischemia’s as well as hemorrhagic stroke, heart attack. WHO had published “A Global Brief on Hypertension-Silent killer, a public health crisis” on world health day 2013. According to WHO hypertension defined as, systolic blood pressure equal to/above 140mmhg and /diastolic blood pressure equal to /above 90mmhg. Ayurvedic texts provide no straight reference about essential hypertension, but disease can be explained on base of Ayurvedic principles. Though many Ayurvedic medicines were used for management of Hypertension, a holistic formulation containing ingredients that can address all possible pathways of Hypertension was not available.. Therefore, new formulation containing Arjuna (Terminalia arjuna), Shankhapushpi (Convolvulas pluricaulis), Ashwagandha (Withania somnifera), Punarnava (Boerhaavia diffusa), Jatamansi (Nordostachys jatamansi) had been formulated to assess its efficacy.