A Literary Review on Effect of Yava (Barley) in Santarpan Janya Vyadhiyan

Abstract

In today’s Era due to life style changes like secondary life, disturbance in food and sleep habitats, intake of junk and fast-food people are suffering from many santarpan janya vyadhiyan like obesity, impotency, diabetes and many more. Many treatments plan has been described in Ayurveda to treat above diseases with the Three-fold management viz; changes in aahar vihar pattern and Aushadh. For improvisation in our life style, we need to add super food called millets in our daily food routine. According to Vedas and Upanishads food is Brahman, the divine reality and a properly selected diet is the essence of disease prevention or cure and Foundation of healthy life. It plays a critical importance in management of many diseases sometime even good medicine or unable to cure certain disease without proper aahar vihar because according to Ayurveda text Aarogyam bhojanadhinam, Santarpan janya vyadhiyan comes under these categories. According to Ayurveda text Yava (Hordeum vulgare) has tremendous incredible performance in both as pathya (whole some diet) and aushadh (Medicinal) preparations. Due to its guru aptarpan, rukah gun and lekhan karma, especially in santarpan janya diseases. So Yava can be used as proper diet in the management of santarpan janya vyadhiyan.