COVID-19: IN THE LIGHT OF SUSRUTA SAMHITA KALPASTHANA
*Dr. Dilip Kr. Goswami
ABSTRACT
Susruta, the most beloved and brilliant disciple of Lord Dhanwantari, the advisor of Shalya Tantra (Surgery) is unanimously admitted to be the writer of the famous book “SUSRUTA SAMHITA”. Though Susruta Samhita basically deals with Surgery then also there are many valuable informations on other topics, like Medicine (Kayachikitsa), Eye and ENT (Shalakya Tantra), Demonology (Bhutavidya), Paediatrics (Kaumarabhritya), Toxicology(Agadatantra), Rejuvenation (Rasayana tantra) and Aphrodisiac (Bajikarana). Agadatantra (Toxicology) is the branch that deals with the poison and poisoning. COVID-19, the dreadful virus of present time is causing terror in the globe. Till now no scientist is being able to enter into the inside magic of the virus and no medicine/vaccine is coming to the market to fight with the virus/disease. The weapon and technique of fighting with CORONA VIRUS is remaining uncertain till now. While going through the branch “AGADATANTRA” of Susruta Samhita some very interesting facts that can be closely co-related with the present “COVID-19” comes to light which may give some new area for consideration for prevention and cure of the present crisis.
Keywords: COVID-19, Susruta Samhita, Agadatantra, uncertain, present crisis.
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