AN AYURVEDIC OUTLOOK TO HEAL CANCER

Abstract

Cancer is one of the most dreadful diseases of present century. Many efforts have been taken yet but success is still far, that's why terror of disease is bigger than the disease. Recent study shows that 7 lakh people died of cancer every year in India and mortality rate is higher in males than females1.In spite of spending lot of money on the research and medical aid for the treatment of cancer but no fruitful result come to an end. However due to sincere hard work done by all branches of medical science, some concepts develop and little bit light seen in treatment process of cancer. Cancer is not new term to ayurveda. Our great trio (Charak samhita, Sushruta samhita, Ashtang samhita) had already described about the disease. Acharya Sushruta, the father of Indian surgery, has mentioned the granthi and arbuda which has resemblance with the observations and clinical entities of cancer. The present paper expounds those diseases with possible interpretations in modern system of medicine on the other hand possible Ayurvedic treatment which is described in classical texts.