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Ayurveda is the first medical science on earth. Ayurvedic medicine is an illustration of a traditional health-care  system that is well-organized and widely used in several parts of Asia. It offers both preventive and therapeutic care.  There are seven types of tissues in the human body known as Dhatus which holds our body structure. When all the  Dhatus in the body are in their optimum levels, each of them contributes toward the health of the body. However,  when there is vikriti in any of the Dhatus then it surely affects body nutrition, health, and mind. Medo vikaras are  one of the best examples of the diseases caused due to vikriti in Medodhatu. Medodushti includes several types of  Medo vikara, which are collectively known as Medoroga. Medoroga can be included in Santarpanjanya vyadhi.  Medo Vikaras are mainly due to imbalance of energy of the body. It is a condition produced by derangement of Agni,  which leads to Amarasa. There is Medo Dhatwagni Mandya, leading to improper formation of Medo dhatu. The  concept of Udvartana is described as a daily regimen and also in Medavikara is widely found in different literatures  in Ayurveda. It is one of the Panchakarma therapies which differ from Abhyanga in its direction of application and  pressure during the procedure. It is a simple and affordable procedure with no harmful effects. In this review article,  a detailed assessment of the Udvartana including its importance and benefits is explained.&nbsp

Nowadays our way of living life is drastically changing and our desires are growing day by day. This results in excessive growing needs of people due to which they are facing numerous diseases. Lifestyle diseases are defined as diseases resulting from the way people live their life. They are commonly caused by lack of physical activity and unhealthy eating habits. This may increase the risk of developing certain critical illness in the later stage of life. In Ayurvedic text Acharya’s have mentioned six basicmodalities of treatment, known as Shadvidha-Upakrama1,which can be very beneficial in prevention and management of lifestyle diseases.In Ayurveda the origin of a disease is broadly classified in two ways (1) Santarpanjanya and (2) Aptarpanjanya. Both types of diseases are caused by unhealthy food habits and decreased physical activities. Santarpan is considered as taking foodexcess in quantity and which is over nutritious along with lack of physical activities while Aptarpan is considered as intake of food which is less in quantity and is under nutritious along withmore physical activities, both the conditionscomesunder improper life style.Acharya Charaka emphasized on the concept that the method of treatment depends on the intelligence and yukti of a physician3 and the treatment should be formulated according to accumulation period of dosha.

In my view Pandu is such a disease which is probably one of the 5 of most common diseases, have great prevalence with almost 30% of world population affected, large capacity to influence other health factors but most neglected in comparison to those. The clinical condition of this disease has a lot of similarities with the sign and symptoms of Anaemia. Although it is commonest where there is malnutrition or nutritional deficiency but it is also found in overnourished people. But pathogenesis of Anaemia and Samprapti of Pandu are not explained in same format. So, in this condition we tried to find out the point of similarity in explanation of pathogenesis of Pandu in Ayurvedic and modern medicinal system. Because in Ayurvedic classics Pandu is mentioned as a Santarpanjanya vikara i.e. a disease due to overnutrition but not a disease due to Apatarpan i.e. malnutrition.