Review Article
Year: 2019 | Month: April-March | Volume: 4 | Issue: 2 | Pages: 62-69
The Chapter “Marma Sharira” of Sushruta Is Mirror of Surgery
Sujit Kumar Dalai
Bharati Ayurved Medical College & Hospital, Durg, Chhtishgarh
ABSTRACT
The chapter ‘Marma sharira’ of Sushruta samhita (ancient manuscript of Ayurveda) gives detailed information of Marmas based on the body organs or structures involved, the time bound consequences of the trauma, the area and the sizes, the sites and location over the body fall in various groups have been the probable approaches towards the understanding of the concerned literatures. ‘Marma’ literary communicates the sense of vital parts of the body. Any injuries or mechanical involvement directly affecting the Marma sthana (sites of Marmas) results to death sooner or later or serious consequences. There are 107 vital points in various parts of the body, which should be carefully dealt during Shalya kriya (surgical procedure) & should always be protected from injury, as the essence of life (prana) rest in them. Sushruta depicted that “knowledge of Marmas is half of the knowledge of surgery” because knowledge on various dimensional classification, their nature, extent of area, consequence & consequential prognosis of Marma plays crucial role for the surgeons, particularly during the course of surgical procedure over the Marma area of the body.
Keywords: Marma, Vital point, Sushruta, Shalya kriya, Surgical procedure, Consequence prognosis, Extent of area