CONCEPTUAL STUDY OF ASHTAMAHAGADA WITH SPECIAL, REFERENCE TO UDARA ROGA DESCRIBED IN AYURVEDIC SAMHITA'S

Ayurveda is a health care system of traditional medicine native to India and a form of alternative medicine. The earliest literature on Indian medical practice appeared during the Vedic period in India, i.e., in the mid-second millennium BC. The Charaka Saṃhita[1] and the Susruta Saṃhita[2], encyclopedias of medicine are among the foundational works of Ayurveda. Over the following centuries, ayurvedic practitioners developed a number of medicinal preparations and surgical procedures for the treatment of various ailments. Ayurveda has detailed description to live long and happy life without disease with help of preventive and treatment aspects. Mahagada is one of the fundamental concept of Ayurveda, which is group of diseases having incurability primarily due to Swabhava (nature), development of Upadrava (complications), Decline in Bala (strength) and Maṃsa Dhatu (Muscle), development of Arishta symptoms etc.