RELEVANCE OF YOGA ON TYPE 2 DIABETES MELLITUS, OBESITY AND IBS-AN APPROACH THROUGH MANIPURA CHAKRA: A REVIEW DISCUSSION
After exhausted review of available literature related to manipura chakra, it is concluded that all the abdominal organs share a close relation with manipura chakra and the yoga technique like uddiyana bandha, bhastrika pranayama, pawanmuktasana etc affect directly on manipura chakra thereby affecting abdominal organ‟s physiology and pathology i.e.Type2DM, Obesity, IBS. Thus manipura chakra is the basic anatomical entity which is affected by these yoga practices and further improves the function of all the neurovascular channels in its vicinity. The purpose of this article is to provide a scholarly review of the literature and regarding research studies related with the effects of yoga in the manipura chakra vicinity on a variety of health outcomes and in diabetes/IBS/obesity and healthy conditions. Using different research database with the key word „„yoga and type2 DM/ Obesity/IBS†a comprehensive search of the research literature from core scientific and nursing journals yielded 20 studies that met inclusion criteria. These studies subsequently were classified as uncontrolled (n-4), wait list controlled (n-3), or comparison (n-7). The most common comparison intervention (n-6) involved exercise. These studies were included in this review. Manipura chakra and it‟s relation with abdominal organ related disease searched through ancient Indian literature (veda, upnishad and tantras) cleared the aim of this article. In the studies reviewed, yoga interventions affecting manipura chakra appeared to be superior to only medical treatment in nearly every outcome measured in abdominal organ related diseases i.e.Type2DM, Obesity, IBS except those involving emergency management in physical condition. The studies comparing the effects of yoga on manipura chakra and only medical treatment seems to indicate that, in both healthy and diseased populations, yoga may be as effective as or better at improving a variety of health-related outcome measures. Future clinical trials are needed to examine the distinctions among yoga on different chakras, particularly how these modalities may differ in their effects. Additional studies using rigorous methodologies are needed to examine the health benefits of the various types of yoga on manipura chakras. uddiyana bandha, bhastrika