Introduction
A Non-Communicable Disease (NCDs) is a disease that is non-infectious and cannot be transmitted from one person to another. The disease includes medical conditions such as, stroke, chronic kidney disease, heart disease, cancer and osteoporosis, which are chronic medical condition that are characterized with a long duration of slow, progressive and painful illness. According to the World Health Organization, the four main types of non-communicable diseases are cardiovascular diseases (like heart attacks and stroke), cancers, chronic respiratory diseases (such as chronic obstructed pulmonary disease and asthma) and diabetes. NCDs affect low- and middle-income people. Nearly 80% of deaths occur due to noncommunicable diseases in developing countries like Nepal. NCDs are projected to exceed the combined deaths of communicable and nutritional diseases and maternal and perinatal deaths as the most common death. Ayurveda is the science of life. The aim of Ayurveda is to promote the health of the healthy life and cure of the sick person. Ayurveda deals about the hygiene, lifestyle, behavior, ethics, spirit, socialization, etc. Ayurveda has eight divisions, every division deals with different aspects of peoples' health. Ayurveda focuses mostly on noncommunicable disease and its holistic approach of treatment is successful over all other systems.
elevated blood lipids, overweight and obesity. These are called 'intermediate risk factors' which can lead to cardiovascular disease.
Tobacco use Physical inactivity Unhealthy diet and Harmful use of alcohol increase the risk of or cause most NCDs.
In terms of attributable deaths, the leading NCD risk factor globally is elevated blood pressure (to which 16.5% of global deaths are attributed) followed by tobacco use (9%), raised blood glucose (6%), physical inactivity (6%) and overweight and obesity (5%). Low- and middle-income countries are witnessing the fastest rise in overweight young children. (WHO)
is the winning point of Ayurvedic theory, allowing it to tackle chronic illness - a Trojan Horse transporting the guardians of health into the camp of disease. The reason why biomedicine cannot treat chronic disease as effectively as Ayurveda lies in its apparent lack of any knowledge structures equivalent to Ayurveda's Tridosha and Shad kriya kala. Where this lack remedied, it would be able to do so, provided that it also adopted Ayurvedic diagnostics and approaches to treatment; the whole system is needed, not parts in isolation. That is why the whole structure of Ayurveda dosha theory, the theory of tridosha should then be extended to include other Ayurveda fundamental concepts; the 5 mahabhutas, 7 dhatus and 13 agnis. One uncomfortable fact about Ayurveda is that its knowledge system is very different from that of biomedicine. Ayurveda never loses sight of the whole, while biomedicine remains primarily concerned with parts of the system. Ayurveda begins with properties of the whole organism, starting from the whole system, and moving to smaller and smaller subsystems, so to speak. Biomedicine, on the other hand, being reductionist, is wedded to the idea that, if cause and effect theories are to be properly articulated, tiniest components must be considered most fundamental, then building larger structures out of smaller ones. The primary objective of the former is to describe integration of systems, of the latter, structural components, and their individual function.
clearly defines the best life style, discipline of life, Health promotional activities, Diseases prevention, Rasayana & Bajikarana techniques and many more methods to prevent the noncommunicable diseases in the different Acharyas' Samhitas, like Swathyabritta. Main responsibility goes under the Ayurveda stakeholders to aware people, pressurize the policy makers and explore the efficacy of Ayurveda to go in mainstream of health service and prevent from NCDs. In conclusion, Ayurveda is of course old, but the most effective system against all of noncommunicable diseases than any other systems of treatment. This fact is proved from the successful treatment of many chronic diseases like arthritis, diabetes, thyroids, hypertension, parkinsonism, muscular dystrophy, hyperlipidemia, infertility. That is why we obviously pronounce, Ayurveda, a battle against communicable disease. This is an opportunity to promote Ayurbeda in reference to the NCDs and mainstreaming it in the health care system by integrating its services.