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1. MD Scholar, Dept. of Samhita and Sanskrit, Faculty of Ayurveda, IMS, BHU, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.
2. MD Scholar, Dept. of Rasa Shastra, SV Ayurveda college, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India.
3. MD Scholar, Dept. of Swasthavritta and Yoga, Faculty of Ayurveda, IMS, BHU, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Abstract
Yava (Hordeum vulgare) is one of the most ancient cereals in Ayurveda. The use of yava for food and
medicinal purposes dates to antiquity. In Ayurveda the uses of yava are described for religious ceremony,
dietary and medicinal preparation and as a pathya diet in various diseases including life style disorders. There
is detailed description of Yava in various Samhitas and Nighantu under dhanya varga. Yava is an efficient
food to prevent and cure many life style disorders. Lifestyle disorders are a big problem for our society today.
Such diseases mainly result from life style related factors such as unhealthy diet, bad food habits, lack of
physical activity etc. This article presents information about yava and its health benefits in preventing life
style disorders.
Key words: Yava; Barley; Ayurveda; Ahara; life style disorders; Diet.
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Rahul Jain, Praveen Raghuwanshi, Satish B Patil. Yava (Barley) A key to the life style
disorders. Ayurpharm Int J Ayur Alli Sci. 2013;2(5):138-143.
Acharya Caraka discussed about ahara in As per Ayurvedic view, life style disorder
Swastha catuska, Annapana catuska, and at such as Diabetes, obesity, Heart disease can be
many more places in different context, which included under Santarpanjanya Vyadhi
shows the importance of ahara. Acharya (overnutrition disease).[6]
classify ahara in 12 vargas in Annapana vidhi
Adhyaya of Sutrasthana, Yava (barley) has Description of Yava in Ayurvedic
been discussed under the sukadhanya varga of Literature
these classification.[3]
Sanskrit name: Yava (Barley)
Life style disorders are due to Poor life-style Botanical Name: Hordeum vulgare Linn.
which includes, poor diet, lack of exercise, Family: Poaceae
smoking, excess alcohol, poor sleep, stress due
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In Ayurveda, life style disorders such as 5. Prameha patient should take food
Diabetes, obesity, hypercholestraemia etc can prepared from old Sali (Oryza sativa
be included under Santarpanajanya vyadhi Linn.), swastika (A variety of rice), yava,
(over nutrition disease) yava and yavak (small godhuma (Triticum sativum), kodrava
variety of Hordeum vulgare) as food followed (Paspalum scrobiculatum) or uddalaka
by honey water is indicated.[13] (Paspalum scrobiculatum) etc. along
with yusa of canaka (Cicer arietinum),
Yava is used as Pathya diet in Prameha adhaki (Cajanus indicus), kulattha
(Diabetes), Sthoulya (Obesity), Hridroga (Dolichos biflorus) and mudga
[18]
(Heart diseases) in Ayurvedic classics. (Phaseolus aureus Linn.).
6. Foods and drinks should be prepared
Premeha (Diabetes) from either yava or godhuma which have
been soaked in the decoction of indicated
1. Mantha (flour of different types of corn drugs in prameha chikitsa.[19]
mixed with water), kashaya (decoction),
barely powder, linctus prepared of yava Sthoulya (Overweight/Obesity)
and other light-eatables; Yavaudana
(cooked yava) without adding any 1. Intake of priyangu (Callicarpa
unctuous articles, vatya (yava-porridge) macrophylla), syamaka (Setaria italica),
saktu (roasted corn flour) and apupa yavaka (Hordeum vulgare), yava,
(pan-cakes) mixed with the meat-soup of kodrava, mudga, kulattha, mudgaka
gallinaceous and pecker birds and (Phaseolus aureus), adhaki (Cajanus
animals inhabiting arid land.[14] indicus) along with patola
2. Yava should be one of the principle (Trichosanthes dioica) and amalaka as
ingredients of food for the patient food, followed by honey water is
suffering from prameha. The patient indicated in overweight / obesity.[20]
suffering from kaphaja prameha should 2. Individuals desirous of reducing over
take eatables prepared of yava mixed corpulence (santarpanjanya roga) should
with honey. Yava soaked in the take recourse to habitual exercise, intake
decoction of triphala and kept overnight of food like yava and wheat only after
should be mixed with honey. It is a the digestion of the previous meal.[21]
refreshing (tarpana) diet. It should be 3. Yava and Amalaki churna is best to cure
taken by the patient suffering from obesity.[22]
prameha regularly to overcome the
disease.[15] Hridroga (Heart disorders)
3. Various eatables prepared from the yava
or bamboo seed or wheat previously 1. Edibles prepared of Yava mixed with
eaten by asses, horses, cows, swans and Vidanga (Embelia ribes) are indicated in
deer and collected from their dung krimijahrdroga (Heart disease due to
should be given to the patient suffering worm manifestation).
from prameha.[16] 2. Patient should consume food prepared
4. Persons habitually taking roasted yava, from yava along with soup of kulattha
dry corn-flour, mudga (Phaseolus aureus and meat of animals of desert like
Linn.) and amalaka (Emblica officinalis) region.[23]
do not suffer from prameha, svitra
(leucoderma), kricchramutrata (Dysuria) Modern researcher has shown the barley -
and kaphaja kustha (obstinate).[17] glucan reduces the cholesterol and coronary
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heart disease risk and how does -glucan as vitamins, minerals, amino acids,
lower serum cholesterol level. Yava (Hordeum antioxidant, -glucan etc have been used by
vulgare) has been proven to reduce cholesterol the physicians in the form of mainly pathya
and can be used as a weight loss supplement. diet, since ancient times to treat a various
-glucan is the oat or barley component diseases of human. Modern science states that
primarily responsible for the cholesterol- so much carbohydrate, fat, protein, vitamins
lowering effect. Beta-fiber is produced from and minerals are required for a well- balanced
whole grain barley flour by enzymatic diet. So according to Ayurveda, Yava is a
digestion of the starch and partial enzymatic well-balanced diet and efficient food to
breakdown of the -glucan. There are several manage the life style disorders. We need to
ways in which this can happen. First, -glucan analyze the active ingredients of barley for the
may reduce or suppress the uptake of dietary clinical study on various diseases. Hence it is
cholesterol. This could happen by retaining adviced that Yava (barley) should be used as
cholesterol in the viscous, gel-like medium, or food & medicinal preparation in any form in
by interfering with micelle formation, i.e. managing the life style disorders
preventing the formation of the lipoproteins (Santarpanjanya diseases) mainly Diabetes,
required for lipid transport. Secondly, soluble Hypercholestraemia, Obesity.
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