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Application of yoga to treat lifestyle diseases, now a distant dream, may become a reality in the near future with the Pune-based Center for Behavioural Medicine (CBM) and Munich-based Yoga Forum set to introduce short-term yoga courses for doctors and yoga trainers to treat diabetes, obesity and hypertension.
In a paper presented at a session on “Ancient Indian Sciences through Sanskrit” during the Indian Science Congress in Mumbai University, Leena Phadke, associate professor at Smt Kashibai Navale College and General Hospital, said their ongoing research since 2005 on yoga and its medical effects on the body showed positive impact of yoga on heart rate, electro-cardio gram, muscles and brain.
“We have developed ambulatory polygraph to measure different parameters of body, including skull, during yoga postures. Through mathematical analysis, we recorded ECG, electromyography, heart rate and state of brain. It was found that during the toughest yoga postures, like shirasana, the brain was relaxed like it is during sleep,” Phadke said.
With their research published in several medical journals, CBM now aims to bring yoga to the mainstream medicine. “Just like medicines are prescribed by physicians, yoga asanas should be prescribed to treat ailments,” said Veena Londhe, professor from Department of Sanskrit.
According to Sanjay Phadke, managing trustee at CBM, proper training was essential to avoid yoga therapists or doctors from prescribing wrong yoga postures. “It will be a six-month course. And we expect equal participation from doctors and yoga therapists,” Phadke said.
Ancient Yoga, Patanjali, was one of the topics presented. “In the 13th century, benefits of Patanjali were discussed in Sanskrit. Those benefits can be used to treat human ailments now,” Londhe added.
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