Abstract

THE STUDY OF TWACHA SHARIR W.S.R TO AYURVED AND MODERN SCIENCE

Vd. Divya K. Nagpure* and Vd. Meena O. Harode

Abstract

Twacha (Skin) is one of the important sensory organs which receive sense / stimuli through Adhisthanas. Twacha generates anticipated response against the stimuli like; Sparsh (Touch), Twacha (Skin) not only helps to understand touch sensation but it also covers whole body, protect from shock and perform functioning of thermostat through sweat channels (Swedvahi Srotas). In Samhitas Twacha is described as outermost protective layer of body as well as largest sensory organ of body. Acharya Sushrut and Acharya Charak very minutely described its layers according to their functions and also diseases which are related to those layers. Modern health science described skin in detail according to division of cell. In this literary research comparative study of Twacha / Skin is done as per Ayurveda and Modern health science.

Keywords: Sparshanendriya, Gyanendriyas, Twacha.