A Critical Interpretation on Ancient Methodology of Shava Shanrakshana (Cadaver Preservation) According to Acharya Sushruta

Abstract

In the ancient Indian culture little evidence is present in Hindu’s mythological and Ayurvedic Samhita’s and Grantha. In the Ramayana chapter Ayodhya  Kanda evidence of Body preservation is mentioned about 5000 BC ago and in  the Ayurvedic Classics in Sushruta Samhita of the body preservation is  described and as earlier as first give the concept of preservation of cadaver and  selection of cadaver. The Need for Preservation was for Long before early  practitioners of medicine in India began dissecting cadavers to study the  human body. The Ancient Egyptians also believed that the preservation of the  mummy empowered the soul after death, which would return to the preserved  cadaver. The Ancient Egyptians (3200 BC) believed that the preservation of  the mummy empowered the soul after death. In the 19th and early 20th  centuries, arsenic was frequently used as an embalming fluid but has since  been supplanted by other more effective and less toxic chemicals.