IMPORTANCE OF VIDDHAKARMA AND AGNIKARMA IN AYURVEDA
Dr. Abhijit Sadanand Shiralkar* and Dr. Archana Abhijit Shiralkar
ABSTRACT
Ayurveda is a science for life and represents its unique concepts and principles. Ayurveda has 8 branches of treatment. Shalya (surgery) is one of them. Acharya sushruta who is the father of surgery described several treatment procedures to treat disease as well as para-surgical procedures. Agnikarma is a unique para-surgical procedure that has a tremendous ability to treat several diseases. In Agnikarma, therapeutic heat burns are done on desired sites with the help of specific heating tools. The disease never reoccurs after treatment with Agnikarma. In modern science, it can be correlated with therapeutic burn or cauterization. This article is an attempt to enlighten various aspects of agnikarma and its use in the present context.
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