Impact of Asana and Pranayama on Heart Rate Variability and Cardiac Autonomic Functions in Young Femaleswith Premenstrual Syndrome: An Interventional Clinical Trial.

Background: Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) is known to be a prevalent health concern affecting a significant number of women globally and yoga is found to be beneficial in such psychosocial disorders.

Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of a structured yoga intervention by comparing pre-and post-intervention changes in the severity of PMS symptoms and cardiac autonomic functions in young, healthy female students over the course of three menstrual cycles.

Methods: The present study is a trial conducted in the Department of Physiology, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal which consists of 49 young, healthy female volunteers suffering from moderate PMS.

Designing a meditation module to affect etiological and preventive factors in primary hypertensive patients-A pilot study.

The aim of the present pilot study is to design, validate, and check the feasibility and efficacy of the designed meditation module on etiological and preventive factors in primary hypertensive patients (PHP). The systematic and detailed meditation module was formulated to prevent the complications of hypertension. The designed module was validated by 5 subject experts in the field of complementary and alternative therapy and research.