Abstract

REVIEW ARTICLE ON FATHER OF SHALYA CHIKITSA-ACHARYA SUSHRUTA

Dr. Deepika Minhas*

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Abstract

Acharya sushruta being an idol for surgeons said “A person who have courage and presence of intellect, a hand free from perspiration, tremor less clasp of sharp and good instruments and who carry his operation to the triumph and plus of his patient who has entrusted his living to the surgeon. The doctor should respect this absolute surrender and treat his patient as his own son.” Surgery form a most important role in common medical training. The ancient surgical science was known as Shalya Tantra. Shalya means out of order pointer or a pointed part of a weapon and Tantra means maneuver. Shalya Tantra embraces all procedure, aim at the attractive away of factors accountable for produce pain or misery to the body or mind. Since hostility was ordinary then, the injury continued lead to the growth of surgery as sophisticated scientific skill. With these skills what a surgeon should have those qualities will be represented in present paper with review on shalya chikitsa in classical texts.

Keywords: Acharya sushruta, paper, review.