European Journal of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences

AAMA - THE UNSEEN AETILOGY FOR DEPRESSION

*Dr. Pradnya Chittawadgi and Dr. Satender Tanwar

ABSTRACT

Everyone occasionally feels blue or sad. But these feelings are usually short-lived and pass within a couple of days. When you have depression, it interferes with daily life and causes pain for both you and those who care about you. Depression is a common but serious illness. Many people with a depressive illness never seek treatment. But the majority, even those with the most severe depression, can get better with treatment. Medications, psychotherapies, and other methods can effectively treat people with depression. Depressive illnesses are disorders of the brain. Brain-imaging technologies, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), have shown that the brains of people who have depression look different than those of people without depression. The parts of the brain involved in mood, thinking, sleep, appetite, and behavior appear different. But these images do not reveal why the depression has occurred. They also cannot be used to diagnose depression. Some types of depression tend to run in families. However, depression can occur in people without family histories of depression too. Scientists are studying certain genes that may make some people more prone to depression. Some genetics research indicates that risk for depression results from the influence of several genes acting together with environmental or other factors. In addition, trauma, loss of a loved one, a difficult relationship, or any stressful situation may trigger a depressive episode. Other depressive episodes may occur with or without an obvious trigger. In Ayurveda agni has been given prime importance and due to intake of unwholesome diet the person develops various kind of GIT disturbances and lead to accumulation of various waste accumulated in various channels of the body and manifests as different systemic symptoms pertaining to respective symptoms and depression is one among that. GIT and nervous system has few of common neurotransmitter such as serotonin which when disturbed in GIT will definitely in turns lead to various alteration in the nervous system and manifesting as the depression. Thus there was a wise and intelligent effort has been done to make the bridge between the aetilogy as AAMA and depression to a greater extent.

Keywords: Aama, Indigestion, Agni, Depression, Neurotransmitters.