Original Research Article
Year: 2020 | Month: June | Volume: 10 | Issue: 6 | Pages: 188-193
Association of Vital Signs into Particular Types of Prakriti in Healthy Infants
Singh Garima1, Singh B. M2
1Research Scholar Dept. of Kaumarbhritya, Faculty of Ayurveda, IMS BHU.
2Professor & HOD Dept. of Kaumarbhritya, Faculty of Ayurveda, IMS BHU.
Corresponding Author: Singh Garima
ABSTRACT
Background: "Prakriti" is a basic clinical denominator in our traditional system of medicine, which defines physiological, physical and psychological traits of an individual and it is also the template for individualized lifestyle, diet, and treatment. There are many parameters to assess Prakriti of infants, vital signs is one of them because vital signs are often considered to be the baseline indicators of an individual health status.
Objective: This study explore the association of vital signs into particular typesof Prakriti in healthy infants
Method: Prakriti of 96 infants was assessed through PRS-IPA (Prototype Research Software for Infant Prakriti Assessment) software, The temperature, heart rate (HR) and respiratory rate (RR) were assessed by inspection/ palpation method and manually, The data of each infant was recorded on infant assessment Performa and categorized on Microsoft excel 2010 after that final statistical analysis was done by SPSS 20.
Observation and Result: The mean temperature of Vata and Pitta Prakriti has shown statistically significant variation in all follow-ups. However the Vata Prakriti infants has shown minimum mean temperature during the study period, while maximum mean temperature has been seen at registration in Pitta Prakriti, FU1 in Kapha Pitta, FU2, FU3 and FU 4 in Vata Pitta Prakriti.
In case of single Prakriti infants, significant and consistent decline in respirator rate was observe in infants of Kapha Prakriti, Kapha-Pitta, Vata-Ptita and Vata-Kapha, while infants of VataPrakriti shows relatively less decline Respiratory Rate during the first 9 months. The mean respiratory rate at birth has shown higher in VataPrakriti than infants of other types of Prakriti at registration and was sustained till final follow ups
Discussion and Conclusion: The present study exemplifies the association of vital and prakriti of infants, which is in conformity with textual references in Ayurveda. For example, the higher temperature and heart rate of baby may belong to Pitta and Kapha characteristics, pitta Prakriti have Ushnamukha and Ushnasharira, while Kaphaja Prakriti infants have Alpa Santapa (low temperature) and shows that of Kapha resulting low heart rate while increased temperature along with high heart rate occurs in Pitta Prakriti and the ayurvedic physician has a good correlation with PRS-IPA measurements, thereby providing an effective and quantitative instrument to assess the prakriti of infants.
Key words: Vital signs, infants, Prakriti, Vata, Pitta, Kapha