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An abnormal accumulation of body fat, usually 20-30% or more over an individual ideal body weight is known as Obesity. Obesity is given as Sthoulya or Medo Roga in Ayurveda. When a person's food intake is with high-fat food, fried items, fast food items etc., along with their lifestyle is sedentary leads to excess fat accumulation in the body which gets deposited in the numerous body channels. Appropriate Ayurvedic Shamana Chikitsa with Shodhan Chikitsa are used to reduce obesity that also with no side effects. Udavartana, Basti, Virechana, Vamana these Shodhana procedures gives effective results, according to Dosha vitiation. There is an important role in the management of Obesity by proper lifestyle modifications and PathyaApathya. Sthaulya (Obesity) is such a disease, which leads to so many hazards like hypertension, diabetes mellitus etc. as well as psychological disorders like stress. The mortality and morbidity rates are more in obese person. It is one of the most common and most neglected public health problems in the present world. In rich countries, obesity is more common among the less educated, but in poor countries, obesity is more common among the highly educated. In classics Sthoulya (Obesity) has been described under the Santarpanajanya Vikara and in Bahudoshavastha condition. Ayurvedic treatment aims not only at the radical removal of the causative factors of the disease, but also at the restoration of Doshika equilibrium. Key words: Obesity, Sthoulya, Lifestyle disorder