Abstract

CONCEPT OF NADI PARIKSHA – ITS IMPORTANCE IN CLINICAL DIAGNOSIS

Dr. Anurag Narware*

ABSTRACT

It is important to diagnose the disease by using appropriate techniques and accordingly treat the treatable disease with love and affection. It is better not to treat incurable disease. Complete understanding of science is essential to get mastery and supremacy in clinical methods. Physician should develop technical skill, scientific knowledge and human understanding to acquire complete knowledge for the diagnosis of various diseases. The art of science of examination of pulse was well developed in ancient India. Nadi pariksha has been said as one of the astha-sthan pariksha. This system of examination cannot be practicised easily because of non-availability of detailed description about Nadi pariksha in ayurvedic literature and lack of practise in the field of science. Fortunately some of the ancient Ayurvedic literature is still available to us, so to enrich the knowledge small effort is made to put light over pulse examination because Nadi pariksha is an important tool for diagnosis of disease in all the stages successfully. In clinical medicine no physical sign is more revealing than the Nadi pairksha. The term Nadi has been used in several contexts in Ayurvedic classics but gradually this term has been restricted to the Nadi pariksha i.e. Radial pulse examination. Though there are some physician who are doing miracles first by examining Nadi, this system of examining Nadi in many views has become extinct now a days. The main reason for this is, now a day very little research and practise is going on regarding this technique.

Keywords: Nadi, Ayurvedic Nadi Pariksha etc.