On the basis of medical officers diagnosis, thirty three (N = 33)
hypertensives, aged 35-65 years, from Govt. General Hospital, Pondicherry,
were examined with four variables viz, systolic and diastolic blood pressure,
pulse rate and body weight. The subjects were randomly assigned
into three groups. The expo group-I underwent selected yoga practices,
expo group-If received medical treatment by the physician of the said hospital
and the control group did not participate in any of the treatment stimuli.
Yoga imparted in the morning and in the evening with 1 hrlsession.
day'! for a total period of ll-weeks. Medical treatment comprised drug
intake every day for the whole experimental period. The result of pre-post
test with ANCOVA revealed that both the treatment stimuli (i.e., yoga and
drug) were effective in controlling the variables of hypertension