Recent Advances In Ksarasutra- Ksarasutra in the Light of Contemporary Medicine with a Critical Review

Preface The most important and influential discovery was the practice of Surgery. With this invention, hum is become more sophisticated, humans lived longer and we obtained the knowledge of ourselves enough to break the boundaries build by ignorance. Surgery is a primordial enterprise of the human being; our ancestors struggle to learn how to repair the human body. Some of these medical inventions developed in Ayurvedic system surpassed any thing available in the modern world until l8" century. Ayurveda is one such major ancien1 sciences of India. The very fact that it still remains a vital health care system shows its viability and inherently strength. It has imbibed the trends of times as it evolved through the ages of logistic, philosophical and fundamental renaissance. The logistic insight 01 principles are broadly based on the philosophical and fundamental concepts of their application. Susruta samhita is one of the practical, authentic and original compendiums of ancient Indian surgical sciences with utmost precision. This excessive in terms of diagnostic soundness, logic of decision making and wealth 01 practical detail makes the testimony 'a surgical genius'.

For Susruta, human life was a note in the symphony 01 the universe and a discordant note called for correction in so far as it restored the grandeur of the symphony.

This universal vision permeated .his text, no matte] whether it dealt with the Anatomy of bones & joints, causation of diseases and therapeutics of Surgery. His contributions to medical sciences were luminous, but they pale before the radiance of surgical legacy. He pioneered surgery at a time, when it hardly existed elsewhere in the World. What he left behind was an incredible legacy in surgical philosophy, technique, management and instrumentation.

Advances in science and technology and their discovery and assimilation by pioneers were the primary determinants for the Surgery. New drug, new instruments, new tools and new devices are developed the requirements of the contemporary generation by the medical industry. All these instruments are the refinement and improvement which in turn become the fuel for the development of the next generation of products. Ksarasutra is such an area of fascination and has a tremendous role in the field of Colo-proctology in ailing the humanity. All these developments in the fragment of surgery never disregard the role of surgeons and Susruta always allowed exercising their own judgment in defining the role of Ksarasutra in determining the area of scope.

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