Amazing India: Ancient Indian Orthopedics Still Survives! | Art of Living
While the modern term orthopaedics came into existence around 1741, based on the book by the same name Orthopedie, by Nicholas Andry, India has known fracture care for ages.
Described in detail in the works of ancient India’s greatest surgeon, Susrutha, it can be found practiced in the same manner by
the “Puttur Bone Setters” of Rachapalem, a village near Puttur, 35 kms south of Tirupathi in Andhra Pradesh have been for centuries. This fracture care is famously called “Puttur Kattu” or the PutturBandage.
It is still administered in line with Susruta’s methodwhich comprises Bangha, the age old science of bone setting. Bangha itself has four different techniques called,
• Anchana – traction
• Peedana – Exerting pressure
• Samkshepa – opposition or stabilization
• Bandhana – immobilization
The second part of this treatment involves herbal application after bone setting, to heal the wound quickly. This herbal concoction is a secret formula held by the local Raju family today from generations.
The bone setter first feels the site of the injury with his fingers. He then sets the bone by pushing or pulling it back into the right position, a painful procedure done without anaesthesia.
A paste of mashed leaves and turmeric is then applied to the area of injury and a piece of cotton drenched in a herbal juice, is tied around it.
Bamboo splints are placed to ensure that the bones do not move and a cotton cloth tied around the splints.
The Puttur bone setters have continued this tradition well and adapted it to the present times too.
Puttur Kattu, successfully tied to Susruta’s method of treating fractures, survives to this day, in flesh and blood, as more than the skeletal remains of the atleast, over 2500 years old bone setting technique of India.
The home of medicinal knowledge and wisdom for thousands of years, this is amazing India.
Humble Courtesy : The Art of Living
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