Volume : IX, Issue : XII, December - 2019

Human Anatomy According To Ayurveda And Their Disorder's

Dr Poonam, Dr. Dhanpat Mishra, Dr Sanjay Gupta

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“Dosa dhatu mala mulam hi sariram.” With this concise sloka from the Caraka Samhita (c. 200 BC), Ayurveda reveals the healthy human body as the dynamically balanced state of dosha, dhatu and mala (bioenergies, tissues and wastes). This same point is further elaborated on by Acharya Sushruta a century later with his famous definition of health as “the equiliium of dosha, dhatu, mala, agni, kriya and prasannata (serenity, clarity) of atma, indriya and manas”. As the Astanga Samgraha (c. 500 AD) further declares: “Shareeram dharayenthe dhatvaharashcha sarvada” meaning the support of the human body is accomplished by entirely dhatu and ahara (tissues and food). Among the sapta dhatus (seven tissues), the ashti dhathu (bone tissue) is the one which is bestowed with the supreme function of shareera dharana(bodily support). Asthi dhatu confers structure to the body and protects the vital organs. A human being without asthi dhatu would be a formless blob of soft tissues. Thus, Asthi dhatu can accurately be viewed as the scaffolding by which humankind stands upright and noble. Any discord in the equiliium of the doshas and dhatus leads to disease.

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HUMAN ANATOMY ACCORDING TO AYURVEDA AND THEIR DISORDER'S, Dr Poonam, Dr. Dhanpat Mishra, Dr Sanjay Gupta INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume-9 | Issue-12 | December-2019

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