The World’s First ‘Ayurvedic’ Surgery Was Successfully Performed In Meerut. Bravo, India!

Ojaswi Sharma from Meerut just became patient zero for one of the most interesting kind of surgery – Ayurvedic surgery, and it could change the course of medicine completely.

83-year-old Sharma became the first person to undergo a surgery to remove his 240-gram prostrate without involving any antibiotics.

The surgery was conducted on March 1st at Meerut’s Anand Hospital and involved only anaesthesia but no antibiotics at all.

 

Doctors who operated on him used, ayurvedic herbs, such as Amla (Indian gooseberry), turmeric, shigru (drumstick) and guggul (gum resin).

In a regular surgery, antibiotics are required to reduce the possibility of surgical site infection.

 

Sharma was allergic to allopathic medicines and it was because of this allergy that doctors decided to use ayurvedic alternatives instead.

Sharma was kept under observation for a month and has fully recovered now.

 

A team of doctors led by urologist Subash Yadav, consulted the nation’s top ayurvedic experts who then suggested the use of ayurvedic medicines in Sharma’s case, considering his allergy.

Hemant Khushawa, retired professor and head, National Institute of Ayurveda, Jaipur, one of the experts said,” Special medicines comprising extracts of giloy, shigru, amla, turmeric and guggul were used in calculated proportions to be administered to Sharma. Shigru is for mild infections and is also a natural painkiller. Amla increases immunity while giloy is helpful in detoxifying the liver. The medicines were started 10 days before the operation.”

 

The whole procedure has taken aback the medical fraternity considering the decline in effectiveness of antibiotics in surgery.

Manoj Kumar, director of the orthopaedics department at Delhi’s Maulana Azad Medical College said,” The development is indeed a rare feat achieved by the doctors. Surgery is highly dependent on allopathy as of now. Conducting surgery with ayurvedic support is the beginning of a new era. It is high time a well-equipped research body was established in the country to conduct research and trials, particularly at a time when the human body is increasingly becoming antibiotic resistant.”

However, this was just one case, and doctors including Manoj Kumar believe that better, and well-equipped research needs to be done and more trials need to be conducted.

 

Could Ayurveda in surgery be the new ray of hope in the declining and darkening world of antibiotics? Quite possible.

News Sources: Times of India, IB Times
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