Abstract

BHAGANDARA –A CRITICAL REVIEW

Pushkar Mishra*

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Abstract

Bhagandara is commonest disease occurred in ano_rectal region. Sushruta, the father of surgery has described every details of the disease. He has described this disease as one the mahagada i.e. very difficult to cure. Acharya Charaka has described the causative factors krmi, trna, asthisalaya, foreign bodies, ativyavaya, pravahana, utkatukasana, asvaprstagaman and the treatment of bhagandara in brief in the chapter of management of shotha. Vagbhata has largely followed the footsteps of Sushruta and has provided a similar description of the disease and its management but has added on three more varieties of bhagandara. Madavkar and Bhavprakash have followed Sushruta in description and classification.

Keywords: Bhagandara, Mahagada.