Ayurveda advised herbal remedies for treatment and prevention of diseases. In Ayurveda four type of sneha and their qualities are detailed described, Ghrita is one of them. But according to modern dietetic science ghrita (ghee) is considered as fat increasing substances and avoid to taken in some diseases like DM, obesity, cardiac disease etc. Many Aacharya described many types of medicated ghee to cure many diseases. On the other hand many researches of modern science shows that these fatty items increase many diseases risk like cardiac disease, obesity, type 2 diabetes, stroke etc. So this article is an attempt to enclose that what is fact and what is myths about ghee. Material and Method: For this article search over various search engine like PubMed, Google scholar was done. Relevant article and various books and samhita also searched.
Ghee, Ayurveda, Myths, modern science
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