The diseases associated with cardiovascular system, which can be treated through therapeutic yoga, are the following: atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries). coronary thrombosis (sudden blocking of the arteries of the heart), and degenerative heart diseases, and hypertensive diseases. Twenty four elderly women (above 60 years of age) were selected as subjects through simple random method for the present study. Initial test constituted of measurement of resting blood pressure of aged persons before and after selected yogasanas programme constituting suryanamaskar, santulna and pawanmukta asana for six weeks. The results shows that there is a significant difference in the resting systolic blood pressure among normotensives after six weeks of selected yogasanas programme and there is a no significant difference in the Resting diasystolic blood pressure among normotensives after six weeks of selected yogasanas programme.
Yogasanas, diseases, resting systolic B.P, disorders, atherosclerosis, coronary thrombosis
