Maharishi Ayurveda Health Centre, Mesnali, Lillehammer, Norway.
Clin Exp Rheumatol. 2009 Sep-Oct;27(5 Suppl 56):S46-50.
Treatments offered at the Maharishi Ayurveda Health Centre in Norway are based on Maharishi Vedic medicine, which is also known as Maharishi Ayurveda. It is a consciousness based revival of the ancient Ayurvedic medicine tradition in India and is established by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the founder of the Transcendental Meditation (TM) technique.
To conduct a pilot study of the effect of the treatment program at the Health Centre on fibromyalgia patients.
Thirty-one women with diagnosed fibromyalgia received an individually designed Maharishi Vedic physiological purification therapy. All subjects received personal advice on diet based on Ayurvedic principles, including a novel approach to food into-lerance, and daily routines. In addition they were offered instruction in TM (for stress and pain management and personal development) (four subjects started), and recommended Ayurvedic herbal food products for home treatment.
A modified Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire included a visual analogue scale for each of the seven outcomes: working ability, generalised pain, tiredness, stiffness, tiredness on arising, anxiety and depression. Pre-treatment scores were compared with scores at six-month follow-up for levels of statistical significance.
Twenty-eight subjects (90%) completed the follow-up. The outcome measures were reduced by 25 to 46% by the study's endpoint: working ability (p<0.002), pain (p<0.001), tiredness (p<0.001), morning tiredness (p<0.001), stiffness (p<0.005), anxiety (p<0.136), and depression (p<0.001). A group of five excellent responders including all four participants who started to practise TM, had almost no symptoms by the endpoint. Compared to the non-meditating control group the TM-subgroup showed statistically significant improvements for all outcome measures except depression.
In this pilot study fibromyalgia patients undergoing treatment at Maharishi Ayurveda Health Centre in Norway showed significant improvements six months post treatment. Because fibromyalgia is considered a treatment-resistant condition, these encouraging results warrant further research.
挪威玛哈里希 Ayurveda 健康中心提供的治疗方法基于玛哈里希吠陀医学，也称为玛哈里希 Ayurveda。它是印度古代 Ayurveda 医学传统的基于意识的复兴，由 TM 技术的创始人玛哈瑞希·马赫希 yogi 创立。
对健康中心治疗方案对纤维肌痛患者的疗效进行初步研究。
31 名确诊为纤维肌痛的女性接受了个性化的玛哈里希吠陀生理净化疗法。所有受试者都根据 Ayurveda 原则获得了个人饮食建议，包括一种新的食物不耐受方法，以及日常作息。此外，他们还接受了 TM（用于缓解压力和疼痛以及个人发展）的指导（有 4 人开始），并推荐了用于家庭治疗的 Ayurvedic 草药食品。
改良的纤维肌痛影响问卷包括七个结果的视觉模拟量表：工作能力、全身性疼痛、疲劳、僵硬、起床时疲劳、焦虑和抑郁。比较了治疗前和 6 个月随访时的分数，以确定统计学意义上的差异。
28 名受试者（90%）完成了随访。研究终点时，各项测量指标均有 25%至 46%的下降：工作能力（p<0.002）、疼痛（p<0.001）、疲劳（p<0.001）、晨起疲劳（p<0.001）、僵硬（p<0.005）、焦虑（p<0.136）和抑郁（p<0.001）。包括 4 名开始练习 TM 的参与者在内的 5 名优秀应答者几乎没有任何症状。与未进行冥想的对照组相比，TM 组在除抑郁外的所有结果测量上均显示出统计学意义上的改善。
在这项初步研究中，挪威玛哈里希 Ayurveda 健康中心接受治疗的纤维肌痛患者在治疗后 6 个月显示出显著改善。由于纤维肌痛被认为是一种治疗抵抗的疾病，这些令人鼓舞的结果值得进一步研究。
