Abstract

Dr. Kaushal Kumar*, Dr. Subhash Upadhyay and Dr. Sakshi

ABSTRACT

Our ancient acharyas have recommended the thorough structural scientific knowledge of the life. The knowledge of Rachana Sharir is necessary for the students of any system of medicine. Acharya Sushruta is called to be the father of surgery, as in Sushrut Samhita, description is available regarding methodology for learning of anatomy, dissection on cadaver, dhamani, sira, marma etc. He has given more emphasis on the practical knowledge. Sushrut Samhita is the bestone for study of rachana sharir. In Sushrut Samhita we get distinguish description among sira, dhamani, srotas We get detail description of sira in Sushrut Samhita Sharirsthan adhyay seven. But regarding sira there is scattered dicription. In one place sira means blood vessels while in one place sira means nerve. so it becomes very difficult to know clear meaning like modern anatomy. so my aim for this literature review article is to study and correlate the tem sira. According to sharir rachana vigyan the circulation of rasa-rakta in the body depends upon sira, dhamani and lasika. While vatavaha sira carry vayu i.e. nerve. We can correlate them with the help of modern anatomy and should understand the text and its importance so we can study the structure and function of siras by correlating our ayurvedic text and modern text. In conclusion we can say that sira which flow from origin can be called as artery, sira flow towards origin can be called as vein, sira which join artery with vein can be called as capillary, sira carrying lymph(rasa) can be called as lymph vessels, sira (vatavaha) carrying vayu can be called as nerve.