ABSTRACT

Ayurveda is India’s traditional healing system, its profound system of mind-body and natural living. The science of marma (vital point) is another extraordinary and dynamic ayurvedic traditional therapy that has tremendous value in health, disease, and everyday living. The early reference to the word marma (vital point) is seen in Atharva Veda. Acharya Sushruta has said to be the father of surgery; he has described the structural, functional, and clinical aspects of marma (vital point). Sira marma is a structurally vascular predominant vital area in the body. The features develop due to application by external injuries, to the sira marma as which may be severed as per the quality and intensity of the injury. That the injuries to blood vessels being on the marmas (vital points) cause excessive loss of blood resulting in dhathukshaya (damage of the tissues of the body) is the apt comparison to the condition of shock. Even the science of sira marma is necessary for diagnosis, prognosis, and for therapeutic measures. So this study mainly aimed as traditional knowledge of sira marma is correlated with modern medicine. Keywords- marma, raktasrava, sira, shock, hemorrhage
Publication date: 01/12/2021

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https://doi.org/10.31032/IJBPAS/2021/10.12.5757