Abstract

EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH ON LENGTH OF INTESTINE ACCORDING TO CLASSICAL TEXT AND MODERN SCIENCE

Dr. Manish Ashok Umak*, Dr. Yogeshwar N. Deshpande, Dr. Sudhir M. Kandekar, Dr. Jayshree J. Motghare

Abstract

Intestine is the longest organ in human body which play very crucial role in digestion of food and absorption of digested food nutrients by Small Intestine and also in excreting the waste food material out of the body by Large Intestine. As intestine in human body is the longest organ compared to other organs, Small Intestine is around 600 cm in length and Large Intestine is around 150 cm in length. In this present study we are going to study about the length of intestine stated by modern science and length stated by Acharya Sushrut in classical text. We are going to prove that the length of Intestine stated according to modern science is same as the length if Antra (Intestine) stated by classical text. For this study we have compared the length of intestine in various modern text with the length stated according to Classical text by converting the length of Antra in cm. Also, we conducted a study in which we performed dissection on 6cadavers in our department of Rachana Sharir and measured the length if arm span and compared it with the length of intestine of that same cadaver. Result shows that the length of Intestine in same as the Length of Antra stated in classical text.

Keywords: Intestine, Antra, Wyams, Arm span, Anguli.