Concept of Lipid and Meda Dhatu in Ayurveda

Concept of Lipid and Meda Dhatu in Ayurveda

Author Name : Dr. Seema V. Rathod, Dr. Gunvant H. Yeola

ABSTRACT

Human body is composed of 7 types of tissues known as Dhatu. Meda is one of those Dhatus and necessary to maintain Snehatwa(lubricity). It can be correlated to lipids in modern science. Some factors present in human body like Vasa and Majja also resembles with lipids. Medo Dhatu is very important as it plays a significant role in developing various metabolic disorders like Obesity, Diabetes Melitus which are already mentioned in Ayurveda as Sthaulya, Prameha those occurs due to excessive Meda.The present study conceptually tries to correlate lipids and Meda Dhatu in context of Hyperlipidemia as per Ayurvedic parlance. Hyperlipidemia involves abnormally elevated levels of any or all lipids and/or lipoproteins in the blood. On the basis of observation it seems that more utilization of lipids gives priority to Obesity and Hyperlipidemia. In our body, there are many tissues which are rich in lipids such as Meda Dhatu, Vasa and Majja Dhatu. Among the above lipids Meda Dathu is very important, as it has significant role in developing many metabolic diseases like Hyperlipidemia.

KEYWORDS- lipid, hyperlipidaemia, meda dhatu, ayurveda,