Lab to study role of yoga on healing opens

Lucknow: Yogshala, a yoga lab to provide holistic treatment along with medical care to patients suffering from various neurological, metabolic and psychosomatic disorders, was inaugurated in the physiology department of Ram Manohar Lohia Institute of Medical Sciences (RMLIMS) on Wednesday.Inaugurated by Governor Anandiben Patel, the Yogashala is a medical complex with a large hall and three labs, Autonomic Nervous System Function Lab, Pulmonary Function Test Lab and neurophysiology lab. The hall will be used for yoga exercises and labs to measure and monitor biochemical and physiological levels of the patients. The impact of yoga exercises and improvement in various physical parameters will also be studied in these labs, said officials. “Patients diagnosed with neurological, metabolic and psychosomatic disorders will be asked to practice yoga in the Yogshala along with the prescribed medicine as a holistic approach to the medical treatment. The lab will help in collecting scientific evidence of the positive effect of yoga on the patients,” said Manish Verma, assistant professor, physiology department. A symposium on ‘Health Benefits of Yoga: A Scientific Basis’ was also held in which Prof Akshay Anand, Prof Hari Hirdya Awasthi and Dr Amarjeet Yadav discussed the impact of yoga in patient care.“Holistic approach will be able to track and examine its impact on patients,” said the governor. Swami Nirmalanada of Bihar School Yoga, who was the guest of honour, said “I am impressed by the enthusiasm of the institute to start a Yoga Lab .”(Inputs by Ashmita Maria)