Today’s Modernistic lifestyle and its impact on Annavaha Sroto Dushti

Nowadays changing food habits, sedentary lifestyle, lack of exercise, late night sleep, stress all these factors of modern lifestyle influences on physical and mental health of the person. Srotas are channelized system for transportation and transformation of Dhatu.Annavaha srotas is the most important srotas described in Ayurveda.Ayurveda has given most importance to optimal dietary regimen and its variations as per seasons, agni, prakriti. When these are not followed, leads to imbalance in dosha in turn leading to the manifestation of annavaha srotasdiseases. The diseases of the annavaha srotas seem to have been very frequent in ancient India as is evidenced by vivid descriptions on various gastro-intestinal tract diseases in a great length in the treatises of Acharya Charaka, Acharya Sushruta and Acharya Vagbhatta etc. Junk food and fast food are harmful and cause ama, which is the base of annavaha srotodushti. In present scenario, to control all global diseases, elimination of frequency increasing etiopathological causative factors of the disease are needed to be studied well. Now days in 2012 onwards, the numbers of patients of annavaha srotas dushti is increasing rapidly and it is observed that, the frequency of this srotas dushti in per patient is also increased although with the awareness of life style management also showing more complicated stages.Therefore, understanding effects of modern lifestyle on annavaha srotas have been reviewed from various resources and have been systematically presented so as to emphasize its ill effects.