A CONCEPTUAL STUDY OF GRIDHRASI
Dr. Kumari Kirti*, Dr. L. S. Panigrahy, Dr. Rajendra Dixit and Dr. Vivek Tiwari
ABSTRACT
Ayurveda has been showing the ideal way of living, which promises a disease free, happy and long life. Sushruta samhita is the earliest known authentic treatise on ayurveda, it is important among all the existing texts of ayurveda. It holds the most important place, since it is the only text now available in shalya tantra an important branch of ayurveda. In Charak Samhita Acharya Charak has described about Gridhrasi. Gridhrasi starts form hip and gradually comes down to waist, back, thigh, knee, shank and foot and affects these parts with stiffness, distress and piercing pain and also frequent quivering. Gridhrasi can be correlated to sciatica in modern per lance. Sciatica is a painful condition in which pain begins in lumbar region and radiates along the posterio lateral aspect of thigh and leg.
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