Abstract

A CRITICAL REVIEW ON ASTHIVAHA SROTAS

Chandane P. B.*, Reddy A. P. and Girbide S.G.

Abstract

Dosha, Dhatu, and Mala are the basic building elements of the body, their continuous and proper flow in the body to maintain health, requires hollow spaces or channels. These channels are called as „Srotas‟ in Ayurvedic classics. Srotas are so called because they have Sravana (oozing) property-i.e. they allow materials to pass through them very slowly. As many structural or physiological entities are present in human body, as many are the number of Srotas. Asthivaha Srotas is one of them. This Srotas is described by Acharya Charak and not by Acharya Sushruta. Due to today‟s changing life style Asthivaha Srotas is one of the highly affected Srotas. The main aim of this paper is to study the concept of Asthivaha Srotas and its functions from all Ayurvedic texts.

Keywords: Dosha, Dhatu, Mala, Srotas Asthivaha srotas.