Role of Yogasanas in the management of Alcoholism

Abstract

Yoga is an Indian traditional health promoting therapy. Now whole world is looking for traditional system of medicines or integrative systems of medicine to overcome from some of the diseases, where not only physical, but also mental, social, spiritual factors are also hamper. For example, life style disorders, auto-immune diseases, genetic disorders and mainly drug addictions like narcotics, sedatives drugs, deliriant poisons like alcohol. As 5.1% of the global burden of diseases and injury is attributable to alcohol. This leads to 5.3% of all deaths.^[1] According to WHO report only 3.3 % of Indians consumes alcohol as it is not widely consumed in India. But still 336 deaths occur per day due to alcohol consumptions. Hence this article is to through light on yoga therapy for alcoholism and for its addictions even after de-addiction therapy.