Abstract

DESCRIPTION OF URINALYSIS IN AYURVEDA AND ITS PRACTICAL UTILITY IN MODERN ERA

Kajaria Divya*

Abstract

Now a day’s modern medical science use various laboratory investigation like blood test, urine examination, stool examination etc., for diagnosis of a disease. We are grateful to modern science for inventing such useful methods for easy diagnosis of disease, but do we are aware of the fact that germ of laboratory diagnostic parameters comes from the primeval medical science known as Ayurveda. Thousand of year ago when the embryo of modern science was wrapped in endosperm at that time Indian medical science attain the maturity and blossom with all its fragrance. Diagnosing a disease using urine or stool as a laboratory parameter is well described in Ayurveda. This paper will throw light on the description of urine analysis for diagnosis of different stages of diabetes (Prameha) as explained in the most authentic text book of Ayurveda- Charaka Samhita.

Keywords: Mutrapariksha, Prameha, Urinalysis.