Dietary Regimen for Wound Healing - An Ayurveda Perspective

Naresh Kumar Ghodela; Vyasdeva Mahanta

doi:10.21760/jaims.v2i1.7505

Naresh Kumar Ghodela Ph.D. Scholar. Dept. of Shayla Tanta, IPGT & RA, Jamnagar.
Vyasdeva Mahanta Associate Professor, Dept. of Shalya Tantra, All India Institute of Ayurveda, New Delhi.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21760/jaims.v2i1.7505

Keywords: Vrana, Malnutrition, wound healing

Abstract

Wound care is constantly devolving with the advances in medicine and expanding with advancement in technology. It is equally essential to look back into age old principles that were practised and follow them logically. Acharya Sushruta has given due importance to explain about wound care. Shalya Tantra is one of the important branch of Ayurveda, in which surgical and para-surgical techniques has been described for the management of various diseases. Vrana (wound) is the most important and widely described chapter of Shalya Tantra. Integrated wound care with managed dietary regimen can give better prognosis and Increases life expectancy. Balanced diet enables quick reaction to the wound or trauma itself, as well as enhanced the healing capabilities throughout the curative process. Nutrient deficiencies can reflect as chronic wound or delayed healing status. Nutrition not only facilitates healing, but also improves or stabilize the patient’s Quality of life.

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