‘Sushrut’ is the father of surgery, know why the whole world considers him father of surgery

Bharat Gaurav, Maharshi Sushruta: The Ayurveda of India is about three and a half thousand years old. Ayurveda medical methods of India is one of the oldest medical methods of the world. This is the reason why Ayurveda medicine has a glorious history and the credit goes to Maharishi Sushruta.

Today, seeing the miracle of joining broken bones, doing plastic surgery, operation, joining cut organs, etc., you would think that medical science is progressing a lot in modern times.

But Maharishi Sushrut has already done all these things about three and a half thousand years ago. In fact, in the Sushrut Samhita, Maharishi Sushrut had told about many ways to perform the most difficult operations. Based on his book, not only India but the whole world learned surgery. Know about Maharishi Sushrut in detail-

Birth of Maharishi Sushruta

It is difficult to tell the exact date of Sushruta’s birth and tenure. One can only speculate about it. Sushruta was born in the clan of sage Vishwamitra, while his wonderful creation i.e. ‘Sushruta Sahinta’ is considered to be the sixth century BC.

There is no exact evidence regarding how and from whom Sushruta got the knowledge of surgery. However, Kashi Naresh Dhanwantari was also a medical doctor named Divovas. In that period, doctors were called Dhanvantari. Sushruta was also born in the same clan.

how the surgery got its name

The basis of the nomenclature of surgery is related to the war etc. in ancient times. At that time arrows and spears used to enter the body of the soldiers. Due to this, many soldiers also became limbless, because for its treatment it had to be dissected and there was unbearable pain in this process. At that time the meaning of surgery was with pain.

Then medicines and mantras were used to remove the pain. Before Sushrut, there was knowledge of Vedic medicine, but it was scattered here and there without being proper and due to this the then surgeons could not use it properly. In such a situation, they were more dependent on medicines and mantras.

Sushruta Samhita is a part of Arthveda

Sushruta Samhita is a part of Atharvaveda only. It describes the ancient tradition of surgery in Indian medicine. Along with this, there is also a detailed description of the teachings and practice of ancient surgeon Sushruta, which is important and relevant surgical knowledge even today.

Contribution of Sushruta in Sushruta Samhita

Various aspects related to surgery have been explained in detail in this book. According to this treatise, Sushruta used more than 125 self-made instruments for surgery. In these, there were tools like knives, needles, tweezers etc., which they used to make themselves.

Not only this, more than 300 methods and procedures for performing operations have also been told in this book. According to Sushruta Samhita, Sushruta was well-versed in plastic surgery, eye therapy, delivery, locating broken bones and joining them etc.

He used to be a great anatomy, physiology, paediatrics, gynaecology, eye disease and psychiatric doctor of his time. In Sushruta Samhita, his eight types of surgical operations have been described, which are as follows-

1. piercing
2. Vulnerable
3. article
4. penetrable
5. luxury
6. inedible
7. reliable
8. Sewya

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