A randomized controlled trial on “the effects of shuddhi Kriyas based yoga program on allergic rhinitisâ€

Allergic rhinitis is very common nowadays making it difficult for the patients to work in their full efficiency during diseased condition it reduces productivity and quality of life. Even being very prevalent in the society it is mostly underdiagnosed till it do not cause other associated problems. There are numbers of methods of alternative medicine to relieve symptoms yogic management is being one of them. Yoga is more holistic because it has components like Kriyas (cleansing techniques), Asana (physical exercise), Pranayama (breathing exercise) and meditation. We are doing this research to find out if Shuddhi Kriya Based Yoga Program is effective for Allergic Rhinitis patients when done properly on Physical, Biochemical and Psychological profile of patients. Previous intervention studies on allergic rhinitis have been using pharmacological agents and have shown high effect sizes. (> 0.7) [give reference], however, in the present study, we plan to use non-pharmacological means (yoga practices and nasal wash technique) and therefore have fixed a conservative estimate of the effect size of 0.5 and with an alpha of 0.5 and power of 0.8 the sample size in each group is calculated to be 26. And considering 20% dropout, we will recruit 30 in each group so the total sample size would be 30+30= 60 no. of Subjects.