A REVIEW ON CONTROVERSIES AND CLINICAL ASPECTS OF PARIBHASHA SHARIR IN RACHANA SHARIR VIGNYAN

Sharir Rachana is an integrative branch of Ayurveda that studies the humanbody in its most minute form to an organized structural form. Sushruta, firstcarried out a detailed cadaveric study of the human body around 2000 yrsago and laid the bedrock of Sharir Rachana Vigyan in his Samhita.Cadaveric studies thus helped the ancient seers explore many structures ofhuman body and thus with the passing time this scientific branch evolvedwith a complex nomenclature of the various body parts. Thesenomenclatures and definitions of the basic bodily structures are compiledunder the heading of Paribhasha Sharir. The knowledge of Paribhasha Sharirholds utmost importance in the field of surgery and medicine as well.However lack of social and technological advancements in the era whenAyurveda was encrypted by the Sages, there emerged out variouscontroversies over a particular structure. Acharyas have stated out individualopinions over a single structure that created a big confusion to the forthcoming generations. With developments in recent times these confusionswere gradually resolved keeping the original texts and definitions unaltered.Thus the present article is a framework that reviews the controversies andapplied aspects of Paribhasha Sharir in Rachana Sharir Vigyan.