A Two Arm, Randomized, controlled, double blinded Study on Ayurvedic management of Type-2 Diabetes

Diabetes has been on the rise in India. There is now more than ever, aneed to have a comprehensive cost-effective mass health care strategy toaddress the disease and its associated complication. Apart from the managementof Diabetes, it also becomes vital to screen and identify the high-riskpopulation and put in place appropriate interventions / strategies to preventprogression to diabetes mellitus.

S-VYASA (a deemed University under section 3 of UGC act 1956), is a NAACA+ accredited University established in 2002 with a vision to make Yoga asocially relevant science. As a part of our mission, we have scientificallyvalidated Yoga practices and have been able to scientifically develop andadminister personalised disease specific Yoga modules. In 2016, our initiative ’Stop Diabetes Movement’ was adopted bythe Ministry Of AYUSH as a national program – Niyantritha Madhumeha Bharatha [NMB] – an initiative to treat andprevent incidence of Diabetes mellitus.

Under the national scheme NMB, we have screened 2,40,968 adults forDiabetes Mellitus across the country. Under the same scheme diagnosed diabeticand high-risk individuals were treated with Yoga and were followed up for 3months to understand the efficacy of Yoga, to treat diabetes and to preventconversion of pre-diabetics to diabetics. In continuation, we here propose to study efficacy and mechanism ofaction of Ayurveda and Yoga in prevention & management of Diabetes throughAyurveda. Standardized ayurvedic formulation, Ayush-82 extract tablet will beused as intervention. The study is funded under the CSR program of Jivanti Welfare andCharitable Trust