A REVIEW ON ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES PRESENT AT STHAPANI MARMA WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO AYURVEDIC & MODERN VIEW POINT
Manish Prakashrao Zate, Milind Ahilaji Sadgir, Pallavi Bharat Khandare · International Journal of Research in Ayurveda and Pharmacy · 2017
Marma (vital point on body) points are described at some important parts of body this may result in death or abnormality of body parts.Among the different marma (vital point on body) explained in ayurvedic texts vishalyaghnamarma (a type of vital point on body) has a slight different working process.It works after the injuring weapon get removed from it & causes the death of a person.Our study has the aim to find out major anatomical structures present at sthapani marma (Vital point between eye brows).This study has objective to find out structural deficient in case of sthapani marma (vital point between eye brows).Another part of the study is to find out the relative cause of death after removal of weapon or foreign body from the sthapani marma (Vital point between eye brows).Literature study for sthapani marma (vital point between eye brows) was done from the ayurvedic text then their modern structures are studied from modern texts.Observations are made on the basis of textual comparison from the ayurvedic &modern text.It is concluded that most of the structure present at sthapani marma (vital point between eyebrows) are vascular in nature, so it contains blood vessels in the majority either in artery or venous form.