Abstract

Prof. Dr. Kalpana K. Jadhav* and Dr. Siddharth Rajaram Gupta

ABSTRACT

Ayurveda gives special emphasis to Mala that is why it’s included in trya aupstambha. Sharir is the basic thing through which the three purusharths mentioned in Ayurveda can be achieved, so it becomes essential to know the body composition. In Ayurveda the concept of formation of body is mentioned as ‘’Dosha Dhatu Mala Mulam hi Shariram”. That’s why Ayurveda science has given vast detail of Purish (mala) like what should person eat (Ahara) according to his temperature, excretion of mala, time of defecation and consistency of purish according to diseases. The above objectives have been discussed with the help of various references found in Ayurveda texts and modern anatomical, physiological are concluded that purish vaha strotas can be correlated to the large intestine and its defecation positions of the modern concept.