STANDARDIAZATION OF RAKTA PARIKSHA ACCORDING TO PRAKRITI

Abstract

Diagnosis of diseases are mainly Based on the clinical examination and laboratory investigation for the management of various diseases. several methods like trividha, shadvidha, asthavidha and dashvidha etc are explained in classics these examinations are pertaining to the clinical examination. Only mutra and pureesh pariksha are the laboratory tools which were used in ancient times. Rakta pariksha was also used and described in the form of physical examination but its use in clinical practice is lacking due to improper knowledge and standardized features in comparison to modern parameters of blood examination. In the present era, many diagnostic tools and method are available but Ayurveda is behind in this area, so we can develop some new test on the basis of Ayurvedic literature. As stated in ayurved in the context of blood, Rakta properties are described as per Deha prakriti likes vataja, pittaja, kaphaja and sama prakriti. sama prakriti individual have Rakta just like indragopa while all other deha prakriti have colour of blood like tapneeye, kamalpatra, and gunja. Acharya Dalhan has also described pure rakta is not very dense, not very viscous and is not clotted very soon and when any cloths get stained by blood the it is easily washed. Rakta pariksha was being used in ayurveda mainly in the form of the physical aspects. but its proper knowledge is lacking. Texts are silent about certain aspects which can vary the results.The tests have not mentioned the site of blood collection, which container should be taken for stain and what is washing time and duration etc. So in this research we are standardizing prakrat rakta property on basis of, color, density, viscosity and cloths staining standard parameter shall be correlated with blood component and a new test can be developed for assessment of the status of blood in an individual. I have conducted 5 pilot study on healthy individual on the basis of site of blood collection, volume of blood, dropping amount of blood, types of cloths, temperature and procedure time was assessed.