Firdaus Khan
There are evidence based clinical trials available which define that when introduction of medicines or surgical interventions becomes a must, there is no way yoga can cure a patient with congenital heart disease or with valvular involvement in rheumatic heart disease. A refractory heart failure which is irreversible on Echocardiography cannot be cured by any system of medicine. Dr. KK Aggarwal, President, Heart Care Foundation of India, said that yoga as a science is more preventive than curative for most of the disorders.
Even Ayurveda classifies any disease as sadhya or asadhya. The tridosha asadhya pattern of a disease is considered incurable in Ayurveda. Most of the evidence based trials for reversal of heart disease have shown only 4% reduction in blockages over a year after adapting to a lifestyle which is based on a combination of yoga, diet and exercise. An emergent patient waiting for angioplasty or surgery should not and cannot take the risk for trying lifestyle yogic management alone.
A fasting blood sugar level of more than 250 and persistent blood pressure of more than 160/100 invariably will require drug treatment and it is very unlikely that yoga alone will be able to reverse the process.
Similarly, a patient with established renal failure cannot get relieved by yoga or other systems of medicine. Lifestyle management is the back bone of every treatment is not denied but it has to be done under supervision as now clear cut guidelines are available as to when lifestyle management alone will be effective. In a high blood pressure patient with no evidence of target organ damage or a high blood sugar in absence of microalbumin in the urine and/or a coronary artery disease in which a patient can walk two to three kilometer without any angina can involve a trial of lifestyle management of up to three to six months. If the same fails to provide adequate and wanted quality of life, it is mandatory, as per evidence-based medicine, to start-time tested medicines.
Advertising is banned on television for all pathies. But the continuing promotion and advertising by healers from other systems of medicine in the pretext of spiritual medicine is doing more harm than good to the people. People go to yoga camps a preconceived notion idea that an incurable disease requiring surgery will get cured by yoga. The government should interfere and ban all types of advertising by any medicine whether regular or alternative so that the right message goes to the society.
30 minutes walking can reduce metabolic syndrome
According to Dr. KK Aggarwal, President, Heart Care Foundation of India, 30 minutes of walking can reduce metabolic syndrome, for which he released the following health tips.
· Controlling one's weight helps to slow down the build-up of calcium on the walls of the coronary arteries and retard the progression of atherosclerosis. Dr. Trevor J. Orchard and colleagues from the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, found that an increase in weight was the most influential modifiable risk factor associated with coronary artery disease progression, increasing the risk by 38 percent.
· A brisk 30-minute walk most days of the week is enough to undo metabolic syndrome, a health condition that can lead to heart disease, diabetes and stroke as per a study published in the issue of the American Journal of Cardiology. About one-quarter of all adults have metabolic syndrome, a collection of risk factors that can eventually set you up for more serious health problems.
While some experts debate the validity of considering metabolic syndrome a disease unto itself, the risk factors are potentially dangerous. They include a large waist circumference; high blood pressure; high levels of triglycerides; low levels of good (HDL) cholesterol; and high blood sugar. If you have three or more of the five risk factors, you have metabolic syndrome.
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