Abstract:
Overweight and obesity are defined as abnormal or excessive fit accumulation that presents a risk to health. Once considered a high-income country problem, overweight and obesity are now on the rise in low and middle-income countries, particularly in urban settings. The treatment modalities have been unsuccessful even in this modern technologically-advanced era. Herbal chugs have been used in the treatment of Staulya since ancient times. Thus in this research, it was intended to investigate the effect of Vtrechana formulae in Ola leave manuscript for overweight and obesity control in Sri Lankan context. Group A was treated with herbal formula for 4 weeks duration and Group B was firstly treated with Erechana procedure and then prescribed herbal formula for two weeks duration. When analysing the results of Group B, BIMI shows a P value of 0.000 which were highly significance. The mentioned traditional herbal formula is effective for the management of overweight and obesity related parameters. But it was more effective with the combination of Virechana procedure than individual. The overall results of present study evidence that the short term administration of new herbal formulation has shown significant effect in decreasing the overweight and Obesity. So the new herbal formulation is an effective remedy for the management of Overweight and Obesity
