1. Ayurveda defines obesity as excessive malformed fat deposits due to depletion of fat-metabolizing enzymes in the body. 2. Obesity can be caused by genetic factors, lifestyle habits like overeating and lack of exercise, or diseases of the digestive system and hypothalamus. 3. Ayurveda treats obesity through lifestyle modifications like controlled nutrition and exercise, as well as medicinal therapies to liquefy fat deposits and promote elimination of fat from the body.

1. Obesity in Ayurveda –
a Birds eye view
Dr SRP Kethamakka
Dr. K. Shiva Rama Prasad, at http://www.technoayurveda.com/
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2. All BI things will
have a Small start
Dr. K. Shiva Rama Prasad, at http://www.technoayurveda.com/
Obesity in Ayurveda – Birds eye view
• Murphy's Fourth Law states
that - If there is a possibility of
several things going wrong, the
one that will cause the most
damage will be the one to go
wrong.

3. Obesity
- a heavy word for body and Mind
• Usually everybody wish to be slim
& trim
• They sacrifice food for it
– They sacrifice social activity
• sacrifice many more which –
– they would like to have
• For some –
– The dream never fulfils – as
they want to see them in mirror
at full length
– The life for them is tough and
tortuous
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Obesity in Ayurveda – Birds eye view

4. Dr. K. Shiva Rama Prasad, at http://www.technoayurveda.com/
Obesity in Ayurveda – Birds eye view
Obesity
• Is more than average fatness
• Is an abnormal increase of fat in the subcutaneous
connective tissues
• Rasa (CHO) is the cause of delivering either Sthoulya
(obesity) or Karshya (sleekness) (SuSu-15/32)
• Swapna (sleep) and Ahara (food) (CSu-21/53) are the
factors to endorse obesity
• Ayurveda defines the Obesity (Sthoulya) as the
excessive depositions malformed fat (durmedas) due to
depletion of the Medoagni (fat tissue formative /
transformative enzymes /hormones, etc.) in the body

5. Pathogenesis (Samprapti)
• Excessive
consumpti
on of Fats
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Obesity in Ayurveda – Birds eye view
• Increased fat
depositions
• Obliteration of
tissue building
process
channels
Obstructed primary
channels –
Rasa (Heart),
Rakta (Spleen),
Mamsa (Liver)
[CHO, hem- Globulin,
myo-globulin]
Increased
Medoagni
• Increased
Hunger
• Complications

6. Dr. K. Shiva Rama Prasad, at http://www.technoayurveda.com/
Obesity in Ayurveda – Birds eye view
Symptoms
Effects –
• Decreased
lifespan
• Diminished
activity
• Reduced
sexual
performance
• Pendulous movement
of
• Abdomen
• Breast
• Buttocks
• Heaviness in the body
• Weakness
• Foul smelling
• Over sweating
• Polydipsia
• polyphagia

7. Dr. K. Shiva Rama Prasad, at http://www.technoayurveda.com/
Obesity in Ayurveda – Birds eye view
Complications
1. Diabetes
2. Skin problems (psoriasis, eczema, etc)
3. Erectile dysfunction
4. Hemorrhoids
5. Liver disorders
6. Neural disorders

8. Dr. K. Shiva Rama Prasad, at http://technoayurveda.wordpress.com/
Obesity in Ayurveda – Birds eye view
7 fold classification-
• Adibala Pravrutta
• Janmabala Pravrutta
• Doshabala Pravrutta
• Sanghatabala Pravrutta
• Kalabala Pravrutta
• Daivabala Pravrutta
• Swabhavabala Pravrutta
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9. Adibala Pravrutta
• Matruja (mother) – probably developed because of Matruja beeja
avayava Medo vikruti
• Pitruja – Asthi beeja avayava – Acetylcholine – citrus acid cycle
disturbance
– Genetically influenced – where Beeja – Beeja bhaaga avayava
(chromosomes) are influenced to give rise obesity
• But “Eugenics” – is provided by the Ayurveda to combat the disease to
eradicate or to avoid “predominance” of Beeja – Pumsavana - sadvrutta
etc.
• Apart from this the colonial prophylaxis management as – Atulya
Grotriya is followed.
• Dystrophia adiposogenitalis, hypothalamic obesity (Hormonal
obesity)??
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10. Janmabala Pravrutta
• Rasa kruta (Apatarpana / under nourishment): is, where
mother irregular food habits or lack of food or incapacities
of taking food leaves an impression over the baby to
develop accumulation of food for future use,
– habituated to develop obesity – after 2nd World war German
born babies are obese - Adiposity
• Douhruda pacharaja (Santarpana / over nourishment):
eating habits of mother while pregnancy cause fat deposits
in child
– Douhrudapacharaja literally mother’s deviated habits
influence the baby for deranged segregations of Shareera
Kleda (Blood Sugar) to develop obesity;
– as result of impaired metabolic functions - simple obesity
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11. Doshabala Pravrutta
• Amashaya Samutha
– The pre digestive manifested obesity (Amaja
sthoulya)
– Here the fats improperly digested are absorbed
in to system to cause fat deposits
• Pakwashaya Samutha
– post digestive manifested obesity
– Digested food converts as fat (Nirama
sthoulya)
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12. Sanghatabala Pravrutta
• Shastra (armed fight): injury can result in to
immobilization; there after to obesity
(Abhighataja sthoulya)
• Vyala (animal): should be concerned to
exogenous causes
– Viral obesity – AD36 virus is said to be causing obesity
(Krimija sthoulya)
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13. Kalabala Pravrutta
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• Seasonal influences are common in manifestation of
disease. This cause Agni disturbances. The obesity /
weight gain of seasonal variations dependent on
food habits which are of external causes implies
influence on shareera kleda (glucose) to cause
Amashaya samutha obesity with apakwa rasa kleda.
– In some seasons sugar levels alters to high and low even –
as we see in summer hypoglycemia, etc. cause weight loss
or gain.
– The cold weather increases the weight (seasonal obesity)
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14. Daivabala Pravrutta
• In it Vidud-ashanikruta – is said to be any external
shock referred to execute electrical impulses that
disturb the body environment and cause Hyper or
Hypoglycemia can lead to obesity
• Pishacha: This word points towards the infectious
origins
– which could be sudden or communicated viral or Bacterial
origins could occur either by contact or epidemiological or
transfusion (infective obesity)
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15. Swabhavabala Pravrutta
• In this the diseases manifested during the un time/ time
schedule routines
– Children (kapha predominance) are usually obese
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16. Obesity vis-à-vis Sthoulya
• Adiposity: Excessive
accumulation of lipids in a site
or organ.
• simple obesity -obesity
resulting when caloric intake
exceeds energy expenditure.
• morbid obesity - obesity
sufficient to prevent normal
activity or physiologic function,
or to cause the onset of a
pathologic condition.
• hypothalamic obesity - obesity
caused by disease of the
hypothalamus.
• Dystrophia adiposogenitalis - a
disorder characterized
primarily by obesity and
hypogonadotrophic
hypogonadism in adolescent
(Fröhlich's syndrome)
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Obesity in Ayurveda – Birds eye view

17. Obesity Management
• Apatarpana (nourishment regulation)
• Chedana (liquefying adipose)
• Shodhana (elimination of fats)
– To reach the Medas – a middle order tissue of
7 dhatu – require medicinal administration –
• Oral route
• Rectal route
• Transcutaneous
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Obesity in Ayurveda – Birds eye view

18. Conclusion
• Obesity measures are many
• Food intake regulation is the
most important
• Consumption of calories leads to
regulation of body (Exercise)
• Ayurveda suggests –
– Prevention is better than cure
– Eliminate the excess fat drastically
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Obesity in Ayurveda – Birds eye view
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