Importance of Marma Therapy in Surgical Care

Marma therapy is the original point system of healing in the body. “ Marma’’ is one of the unique and important topics that plays an important role in surgery. Hence it is rightly called as Shalya Vishayardha. Marma plays significant clinical role and may be correlated to the Acupressure / Acupunture. Marma are the critical points of body associated with different organs and nerves. Ayurveda describe use of Marma therapy for various diseases and identification of Marma point thus these points acts as a physiological junctions. Vaidya Sushruta described ‘the locations of the Marma points, as well as how they influence prana. He stated that it is important for the surgeon to have knowledge of these points for the purpose of avoiding them, so as to cut into them could result in a catastrophic outcome. This article summarizes various perspective of Marma and their clinical importance as per Ayurveda.