CONCEPTUAL APPRAISAL OF DAILY REGIMEN TO PREVENT AND CURE NIDRANASH WSR TO INSOMNIA

Dr. Mahima Shrivastava, Dr. Arun Kumar Gupta* and Dr. Trupti Gupta

ABSTRACT

In today’s era, the incidence of insomnia has been increased across India and throughout the world, affecting not only old persons but also the middle aged and youngones. Nidra/Sleep is the normal physiological phenomena which has a restorative effect on body and mind. Lack of proper sleep hampers the quality of life, even if manifests at young age, its even more hazardious. Today’s fast, changing and competitativelifestyles, increased screen times of mobile, TV, ipods, anawareness regarding sleep hygiene are the triggering factors. Among dincharyaregimen, some remarkable regimens are given which boosts sleep. Intoday, s era its an urgent need to improve and update lifestyles with these procedures to prevent and cure insomnia as asubstitute or adjuvaent of other medications. Aims and objectives: 1)To study the importance and causes of swabhaviknidra. 2) To study in detail the causes of Anidra(insomnia). 3) To study the importance and mode of action of remarkable daily regimens (dincharya procedure) wsr to prevent and cure insomnia. 4) To develop a “Dincharya protocol Model” for the management ofinsomia. Materials and methods: Variousayurved classics and articles published till date were reviewd to update the importance and understand the mode of action these of dincharya procedures wrs to enhance good sleep.

Keywords: Dincharya, nidra, anidra, nidranash, daily regimen for sleep, insomnia.