Volume : VIII, Issue : I, January - 2018

KSHAR SUTRA: A CLASSICAL REIEW

Dr. Sonal Chaturvedi

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Kshar karma is one of the most important para surgical procedures. The word Kshara means concentrated or strong salts and alkalis made mainly out of herbs. Sometimes even minerals are used to prepare a kshar.

            When applied locally, Kshar is capable of carrying out the function of incision, excision, and scraping, hence the name. Kshar karma is tridosha shamak, it subdues all the three vitiated doshas1.

Kshara means strong caustics. Acharya Susrut has said that kshara is the best Anushashtra2. Those disease that cannot be cured by any other medicine or in Subjects Where surgery is not possible this para–surgical procedure is the best option. Acharya Sushrut and also Acharya Vagbhatt have dedicate one whole chapter in Sutrasthana for kshara3.

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Article: Download PDF   DOI : 10.36106/ijar  

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Dr. Sonal Chaturvedi, KSHAR SUTRA: A CLASSICAL REIEW, INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume-8 | Issue-1 | January-2018


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