Abstract

A REVIEW ON COSMETIC ASPECT OF TARPANA

Nirma Bansal* and Shamsa Fiaz

Abstract

Beauty has always been the key to unlock new doors to life and it has played a major role in our social life. Beauty is not only limited with physical appearance but it is related with a healthy state of all sense organs. Ayurveda has stated “Sarvendriyanam Nayanam Pradhanam” i.e. eye is the prime sense organ among all the sense organs which is considered as a source of Pratyaksha Gyana (direct perception) and doubtless knowledge. Ayurveda described Kriyakalpas in a beautiful manner for maintenance of health of eye as well as treatment of various eye disorders. Out of theses Kriyakalpas, Tarpana is most important which provides nutrition to eye ball. As per cosmetic aspect, it also improve physical appearance of eyes. So Tarpana has important role in ocular cosmetology. Therefore an attempt is made in this review to present cosmetic aspect of Tarpana.

Keywords: Tarpana, Cosmetology, Kriyakalpa.