European Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine

Introduction: Yoga is an art in all its aspects, from the most practical to the highest. It is a spiritual art, in the sense that it transforms the seer and brings him into contact with his inner soul. It is a fine art, since it is aesthetic, expressive, visual art, since the body is made to form geometrical designs, lines architectural shapes and the like which are beautiful to behold. It is essentially a useful art for the doer and is presented as a performing art for viewer. Objective: To assess the effect of 45 minute yogic kriya (Surya Namaskar and Kapalbhati) for for 30 days on various physiological and biochemical parameters. Materials and Methods: This is a prospective and observational study conducted in the Department of Physiology and Biochemistry at Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital over a period of 6 months. All subjects volunteering for participation in the study had given their written informed consent. The study protocol was approved by our college ethical committee. Only healthy volunteers with daily regular lifestyle and are not involved in any sport regularly, were chosen to be part of the study between the age group 17-21 were taken into study. Subjects having any pathological condition and those who are on any pharmacological treatment from 3 months prior to the study were excluded from the study. Results: In the present study it was found that the pulse rate was decreased significantly (p<0.05) at 30 days in Group I and II. RR decreased significantly at 30 days in group I, and II with p<0.05. This significant decrease continued at 30 days with group I and II. In our study it was found that significant decrease in SBP at 30 days. At 30 days two groups had highly significant decrease in SBP (p<0.05). In addition, it was also found that significant decrease in DBP at 30 days. At 30 days two groups had highly significant decrease in DBP (p<0.05). After yoga, at 30 days, the reduction in the Serum Total cholesterol, serum triglycerides levels were found in two groups in the present study. The decrease was significant (p<0.05) in Group I and II (p<0.01). In addition, after 30 days of yogic practices significant (p<0.05) increase in the HDL level was found in Group I and II. Conclusion: It was concluded that in hypertensive subjects whether newly diagnosed subjects were restoration of the altered parameters towards normal