Effect of jala shirodhara in anidra w.s.r to insomnia – a case series

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Insomnia also known as sleeplessness, is a sleep disorder in which people have trouble sleeping. There are around 10% to 30% of adults have insomnia at any given point in time and up to half of people have insomnia in a given year and about 6% of people have insomnia that is not due to another problem and lasts for more than a month. The typical first line of treatment is Sleep hygiene and lifestyle changes but is restricted only to mild cases, Moderate or severe cases require medications like sleeping pills, sedatives, antidepressants, antipsychotic drugs like Antihistamines, Benzodiazepines, etc. The side effect, dependency, and withdrawal symptoms of these drugs are not new to the medical sciences. On the antagonistic part, Ayurveda can provide a safe and effective noninterventional solution to it by Shirodhara a Panchakarma therapeutic measure. In this case series Jala (Plain Lukewarm Water) was used to see the effect on various criteria like Athens Insomnia Scale Hamilton Anxiety Scale, Hamilton Depression Scale, WHO – Quality of scale (Bref), and Ayurveda Lakshana and an overall improvement ranging from 62.8 % to 91.2 % was found in all these criteria’s which was found worth sharing to the medical fraternity for enhancement and its further appraisal. Keywords: Anidra, Shirodhara, JalaDhara, Insomnia, Ayurveda INTERNATIONAL AYURVEDIC MEDICAL JOURNAL Kavita Kumari