Swasthavritta and yoga is a specialty which mainly focuses on the preventive aspects of health care management. The care of the health of healthy individual and prevention of disease occurrence is the main focus of our specialty. This specialty can be correlated with preventive and social medicine/ community medicine according to modern medical science.
The subject mainly deals with proper regimens to be followed to prevent diseases like Dinacharya (daily regimen), Ritucharya (seasonal regimen), personal and social hygiene (vayaktika and samajika sadvritta).
Knowledge of Prevention and curative aspects of communicable and non-communicable diseases, vaccinations, information regarding health organizations and administration, diet is the main focus. Balancing of physical and mental health through yoga comes under Swasthavritta.
