Original Research Article
Year: 2020 | Month: April | Volume: 10 | Issue: 4 | Pages: 124-127
A Comparative Study on Obesity Using Fucus Vesiculosus With and Without Advised Dietary Patterns
Shweta Singh1, Arun B Jadhav2, V.V. Dolas3
1Post graduate scholar, 2Principal, 3Associate professor,
Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed To Be University- Homoeopathic Medical College and Hospital, Pune.
Corresponding Author: Shweta Singh
ABSTRACT
Introduction: Present lifestyle with less physical activity and more mental strain leads to year’s disease and disorders different from known earlier. These are the so-called diseases of civilization which have affected urbanized, industrialized societies over the past 60 years.
Need of the study: Prevalence of obesity is increasing rapidly throughout most of the industrialized world. Based on statistics from the World Health Organization, overweight and obesity may soon replace more traditional public health concerns such as under-nutrition and infectious diseases as the most significant contributors to ill health.
Objectives: To study Obesity from different sources. A comparative study on obesity using Fucus vesiculosus with and without advised dietary patterns.
Materials and methods: A Prospective study was carried out during period of 6 months in 30 patients with obesity. 30 cases were selected by simple random sampling technique. Selected 30 cases were divided in two groups (Group A and Group B) randomly. Each group comprises 15 cases. Group A received Fucus vesiculosus as therapeutic medicine. Group B advice diet.
Results: At the end of the study it is observed that result obtain from medicine prescribed on therapeutic value for obesity that is fucus vesiculosus is less than the result obtained by medicine fucus vesiculosus along with diet control and exercise.
Conclusion: For obesity, the homoeopathic management is mainly of two types one is therapeutic way of prescription and other advice dietary both ways are considered for the study. This study concludes that fucus vesiculosus is less effective than diet control and exercise.
Key words: Obesity, Fucus Vesiculosus, Advised Dietary Patterns, Homoeopathy