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COVID19
Ayurvedic Mental Health Care
Pillars of Health
Holistic Mental Health Care
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Enhancement of the Psycho-immunity is important aspect for enhancing the total immunity to prevent from stress, anxiety and infection in the time of COVID19 pandemic. In most developing countries of the world, the traditional medical systems can provide solutions and support to cope with the current situation. Present study aimed to find out some of the evidence based practices related to Ayurveda, Yoga and other Indigenous studies, which are helpful in current situation. The eight basic practices, tools or factors to enhance the level of psychological immunity were described in this study and most of them were tested previously through randomized control trials. These eight tools include – ‘Brain Tonics, Code of Conducts, Golden Rules of Happiness, Yoga, Satvik Karma, Somato-psychic-factors, Adverse effects of biological and psychological pollution, Three Pillars (vat-pitta-kapha) and Three Sub-pillars (aahar-nidra-brahmacharya) of health’ and thus the study presented the holistic mental health care module helpful in COVID19 pandemic.
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