World Journal of
Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences

CONCEPTUAL REVIEW ON CHILD CARE: AN AYURVEDIC ASPECT

*Dr. Shubhangi D. Chandanpat, Dr. Priyanka Joshi and Dr. Sonali Deshmukh

ABSTRACT

Children are the future pillars of society. A healthy child can only make a society strong and healthy and so the na-tion also. Ayurveda showed the importance of child care many years ago being ancient science by giving Bala or Kaumarbhritya as a separate branch or Anga of Ayurveda. Early childhood is a critical period in development, with cognitive and socioemotional domains forming the building blocks of children’s later life. Realizing the fact an un- healthy mother can never be able to give birth to a healthy child and so a child not healthy at the time of birth will not become a healthy adult. In Ayurveda Kaumarbhritya or Bala, chikitsa includes Kumar Bharanm, Dhatree KshirdoshaSanshodhan, Garbhopakram Vigyan, Sutikaupakram, etc.

[Full Text Article]   [Download Certificate]