A REVIEW OF LITERATURE OF AGNIKARMA WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO SHALYATANTRA

*Dr. Shivanand Fulaji Kawane

ABSTRACT

In modern medicine we have variety of pain
relieving medications that works brilliantly for short period of time
and when used for longer duration they come up with various side effects. So there is a need to find a way to
relieve pain without much suffering to the patient and Agnikarma is one of the sound ways to do so. It is
therapeutic burning with special tools on specific sites according to the disease. It is a parasurgical procedure that is
utilized as curative procedure, or as postoperative procedure or in hemostatic manner. Agnikarma is derived from
Ayurveda, a renowned Indian system of medicine, which is procedure used generally for the management of pain
and also for curing various disorders. In Ayurveda Vata Dosha is responsible mainly for various types of Ruja or
pain in the body and Agnikarma is one of the best method to pacifying Vata and Kapha Dosha and hence relieves
pain. Acharya Sushruta, a renowned Vedic Indian surgeon has very well explained the emin ence of Agnikarma by
saying that the recurrence of disease will not be there if once they are treated with Agnikarma.

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