Abstract

AYURVEDIC PERSPECTIVE OF SATURDAY NIGHT PALSY AND ITS ANATOMICAL EXPLORATION

Dr. Bipan Chander and Dr. Shaily Jalan*

ABSTRACT

For a developing nation like India, it is very important to confluents its ancient techniques of treatment along with the modern one. Prosperity of any nation could be estimated by its Healthy citizen number. Today when throughout world is much aware about the Health and Health relating problems, once again every eye is looking forwards towards the ancient procedures of treatments and the ancient life style is carefully observed with the keen eye. Marmas are important diagnostic as well as therapeutic points. The pulse itself is one of the prime 'vessel' (shira) marmas in the body, where the patient's energy can be read and understood. Ayurvedic practitioners routinely palpate various marma points for diagnostic purposes during patient visits. Marma points are important regions for gauging the doshas, their level of accumulation and their possible disorders, particularly relative to vata dosha, which governs pain and trauma. Any painful point on the body becomes a kind of marma as long as the pain exists. Saturday night palsy can be caused by any unnatural positioning or use of equipment that compresses the radial nerve and can be defined as a neuropathy of the radial nerve due to prolonged pressure to the upper medial arm by an object or a surface.

Keywords: Marma(vital points in the body), Kurpar-(Elbow),Sthan(site or chapter),Vatik disorder(Ayurvedic term responsible for pain),Shakha(extremity) kuni (the deformity after injury)doshas(Three humors namely vatta, pitta and kapha responisible for person’s healt