REVIEW ARTICLE ON ARBUDA AND ITS AYURVEDIC MANAGEMENT IN VEDIC CONTEXT

  • Suresh Kumar Jat Associate Professor, Dept. of Roga Nidana Evam Vikriti Vijnana, Jayoti Vidyapeeth Women’s, University, Jaipur
  • Shikha Sharma Associate Professor, Dept. of Samhita & Siddant, Jayoti Vidyapeeth Women’s University, Jaipur
  • Tulika Sharma BAMS 4th yr, Jayoti Vidyapeeth Women’s University, Jaipur.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.32553/jbpr.v9i1.714
Keywords: Ayurveda, Arbuda, granthi,, cancer

Abstract

Arbuda (cancer) is one of the most asadhya vyadhi in 20th century and spreading further with continuance and increasing incidence in the 21st century.  The word Cancer is derived from the Greek meaning ‘CRAB’. Cancer is not new term in Ayurveda .It had already described by great trio of our acharya such as charak samhita, sushruta samhita, asthang hridya. The father of Indian surgery is acharya Sushruta which mentioned granthi and arbuda,In modern  it resemble with cancer. Cancer as inflammatory or non-inflammatory swelling and mention them as either Granthi (minor neoplasm) or Arbuda (major neoplasm). Recent study shows that 7 lakh people died with cancer every year in India and mortality rate is higher in male than female.

Keywords: Ayurveda, Arbuda, granthi, cancer.

Published
2020-01-31
How to Cite
Suresh Kumar Jat, Shikha Sharma, & Tulika Sharma. (2020). REVIEW ARTICLE ON ARBUDA AND ITS AYURVEDIC MANAGEMENT IN VEDIC CONTEXT. Journal of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Research, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.32553/jbpr.v9i1.714
Issue
Vol. 9 No. 1 (2020)
Section
Review Articles

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