Abstract

AN AYURVEDIC REVIEW- THE ROLE OF ERANDA PATRA AS PATRADANA IN THE MANAGEMENT OF VRANA

Dr. Preeti Srivastava* and Dr. Kunwar Adhar Bhatnagar

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Abstract

Background: Vrana management is being an important challenge for the surgeons since ancient times. As human body is sustainable to vrana in many aspects, many managements are described and applied for the treatment of vrana. Acharya Sushruta has described vrana broadly in many context in his classics. Acharya Sushruta defined the term vrana as the tearing or splitting of the tissue under the skin and since it causes discontinuity of the body hence it is called vrana. Shasti-upakrama is the best management of vrana in the Ayurvedic classics. Patradana is one of the treatment described under the shastiupakrama. Many drugs leaves are used for patradana in the healing of wound in this context Eranda patra is best used in the healing of wound. vrana can be correlated to wound in modern text. In this article we are going to discuss about the effects of Eranda patra as patradana in the healing of wound.

Keywords: Patradana, Vrana, Wound, Shasti-upakrama, Eranda patra.