REVIEW ON MEDOVAHASROTAS AND ITS MOOLSTHANA WITH REFERENCE TO OBESITY INDUCED HYPERTENSION

Excess weight gain, especially when associated with increased visceral adiposity, is a major cause of hypertension accounting 65-75% of total cases of hypertension. Increased renal tubular sodium reabsorption by the impairment in renal pressure natriuresis plays an important role in initiating obesity induced hypertension. The present study conceptually tries to substantiate the relation between moolasthana described for medovahasrotas with reference to the pathology of obesity induced hypertension. The moola explained for medovahasrotas are Kati, Vrikka, Vapavahana and Mamsa (Kidney, Suprarenal gland, Lumbosacral region, Superficial fat) which are the general regions of deposition of visceral fat or meda. The increased meda will hamper the renal pressure natriuresis in mainly three ways: 1)Physical compression of the kidneys by fat in and around kidney. 2)Increased activation of RAAS. 3)Increased SNS activity. Thus, medovaha srotodushti further enhances medodhatudushti (Obesity or Sthoulyata) itself, which in turn destroys the srotomoola. Hence, evidence of inherent relation among medovaha srotas and its respective srotomoola is established. Keywords: Medovahasrotas, Srotomoola, obesity induced hypertension