Year: 2014
Type: article
Abstract: Low Birth Weight neonates are the neonates with birth weight less than 2500grams. In India 6-8 billionLBWs are born annually.1Blending of concepts from Contemporary and Ayurvedic disciplines, in anattempt to find solutions to problems of management of LBW is the need of the day. In this paper,description of the conceptual basis for understanding Low Birth Weight based on literary survey andanalysis was presented. There is vast literature available in contemporary science about the aetiologies,pathogenesis, physiological variations, management interventions etc. in LBWs’. Breast feeding is animportant asset against neonatal morbidities and mortalities in LBW’s, in developing countries.2Among the available, contemporary breast feeding interventions there is a lacuna in understandingmeasures to enhance the breast milk to suffice the greater nutritional demands of LBWs. In Ayurvedicliterature many measures are mentioned to cater to the needs of LBWs like measures to enhance breastmilk,under the heading of stanya vardhak yogas.3However we do not find direct references of LBW inAyurveda. This study intends to fill in the lacunae of both the disciplines by knowledge integration,hereby drawing out the likely Nidanapanchakas and Ayurvedic principles of management, for thiscondition.
Institutions: KLE Academy of Higher Education and Research, KLE Ayur World
Language: English
Subfield: Complementary and alternative medicine
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W371009852