WORLD JOURNAL OF ADVANCE
HEALTHCARE RESEARCH

Dr. Jyoti Meghdambar*, Dr. Vinayak Navanale

ABSTRACT

Diabetes Mellitus is a complex metabolic syndrome characterized by involvement of multiple body systems. Faulty dietary habits, sedentary life style and stressful conditions may lead to various metabolic disorders and diabetes is one of them. Prevalence of Diabetes is increasing day by day throughout the world where India leads the highest numbers. Diabetes is the fourth leading cause of global death by disease. Type-2 DM is responsible for approximately 90% of cases. The disease, in which the formation of urine and frequency of urine is more, is called as prameha. Acharya charaka has mentioned prameh /madhumeh under Maharog (major disease)as important body tissues (Dhatus)are vitiated. All Doshas and Dushyas are invariably vitiated in all types of Prameh. Only those which are vitiated in excess are specifically and separately described in a particular type of prameha. In Ayurveda clinical features, etiopathogenesis and prognosis of Madhumeh resembles with that of Diabetes mellitus. This literature review work is an attempt to compile and present Prameh in systematic manner. Materials and methods – References have been collected and relevatnt matter is compiled from available literature. Available commentaries of present era are also reviewed. All complied matter is reorganized and critically analysed for the discussion and an attempt has been made to draw some fruitful conclusion. For this purpose right from definition, classification ,pathogenesis clinical features have been taken into account from all the literature in Ayurveda. Conclusion – The rich literature of Madhumeh described in Ayurvedic classics still remains a tremendous scope of research in the field of diabetes mellitus.