Dyslexia: A solution through Ayurveda evidences from Ayurveda for the management of dyslexia in children: A review. 2012

Anita Sharma, and Vinod K Gothecha, and Nisha K Ojha
Assistant Professor, Post Graduate Department of Agada Tantra, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.

Dyslexia is one of the commonest learning disability. It is defined as a disorder where a child, in spite of all the classroom teaching, is not able to attain the language skills of reading, writing and spelling according to their level of intelligence. Dyslexia individuals often have difficulty in relating to the association between sound and their respective letters. Reversing or transposing the letters while writing is characteristic with letters such as b and d, P and q, etc., The prevalence among school children is reported as 9.87% and in the selected families, it is 28.32%. Dyslexia significantly interferes with academic achievement or activities of daily life and are not primarily due to sensory, motor or mentally handicaps. About 40% of dyslexic children and adolescents dropout of schools. According to Ayurveda, learning is a result of successive and complex interaction of Indriyas (cognitive and motor organs), Indriyartha (sense organs), Mana (psyche), Atma and Buddhi (intellect). Above all, the functioning of these factors is governed by Tridosha (vata, pitta and kapha) and Triguna (Sattva, Raja and Tama) in a specific coordination and balance Any disturbance in these Tridosha and Triguna will cause disordered functioning of Indriya, Mana and Buddhi leading to impaired learning or Dyslexia Ayurvedic drugs can help in the management of dyslexia by making these Tridosha and Triguna in well-balanced state and also by providing Medhya (intellect promoting) drugs to improve the learning ability in these children.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries

Related Publications

Anita Sharma, and Vinod K Gothecha, and Nisha K Ojha
January 2013, Ayu,
Anita Sharma, and Vinod K Gothecha, and Nisha K Ojha
January 2011, Ayu,
Anita Sharma, and Vinod K Gothecha, and Nisha K Ojha
September 2025, Journal of pharmacy & bioallied sciences,
Anita Sharma, and Vinod K Gothecha, and Nisha K Ojha
August 2021, The Permanente journal,
Anita Sharma, and Vinod K Gothecha, and Nisha K Ojha
January 2021, Journal of Ayurveda and integrative medicine,
Anita Sharma, and Vinod K Gothecha, and Nisha K Ojha
January 2020, Journal of Ayurveda and integrative medicine,
Anita Sharma, and Vinod K Gothecha, and Nisha K Ojha
August 2022, Journal of family medicine and primary care,
Anita Sharma, and Vinod K Gothecha, and Nisha K Ojha
July 2003, Ancient science of life,
Anita Sharma, and Vinod K Gothecha, and Nisha K Ojha
April 2024, Cureus,
Anita Sharma, and Vinod K Gothecha, and Nisha K Ojha
January 2025, Journal of Ayurveda and integrative medicine,
Copied contents to your clipboard!