AN APPROACH OF ACHARYA SUSHRUT ON ASHMARI
Dr. Mohit Maru* and Dr. Rajesh Gupta
ABSTRACT
Urolithiasis is a very common disease in today’s era. Due to changed standard of living and sedentary life style of people and it is strongly associated with race, ethnicity and region of residence. In Ayurveda this is known as Ashmari which is similar to calculi or stone. Apthya is an important factor in formation of ashmari. context about ashmari is available in most of the literature of ayurveda, both shaman and shodhan chikitsa is described for the treatment of ashmari. Acharya sushrut has mentioned shaman chikitsa like use of ghrita (medicated ghee), taila (medicated oil), paneeya kshara etc and he has also described about shalya karma for ashmari.
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