EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF ARKESHWARA RASA AND ARBUDAHARA RASA

Abstract

In this modern age Man is always in the search of ways and means to attain better health, increase longevity, vigour, and delaying the process of aging and other age related problems. But unfortunately the food habits and ever increasing environmental pollutions have pushed the present day man into a precarious state of suffering from various diseases like cancer. Being an eternal science, 'Ayurveda', the 'science of human life', deals with physical, psychological as well as spiritual well being of an individual. It covers all the spheres of human life. It is not merely a materialistic science, but a fact full truth, which our great ancestral sages, through their experience, logic and power of wisdom, had found true and proved it to the truth of time. Now, the medical community all over the world considers Ayurveda as the last resort for unanswerable question whenever their hands are tied up. Arbuda is one of the surgical diseases and was explained in detailed by Sushruta the pioneer of in ancient ayurvedic texts that have remarkable similarities with modern interpretation of cancer. While searching the literature one finds that Arbuda is the clinical sign correlated with the externally visible cancerous growth.