Agnikarma is an ancient Ayurvedic therapy that uses cauterization or heat therapy to treat various musculoskeletal conditions. It involves using hot metallic probes called shalakas to burn the skin over affected areas like joints to form scar tissue and harden the area. According to ancient texts, cauterization is considered the final remedy when other treatments like drugs or surgery have failed. The document discusses the history of cauterization in various ancient cultures and how modern physics has helped explain its therapeutic effects like improved blood flow and healing through deep penetration of infrared heat into tissues. It also presents various common conditions treated with Agnikarma and shows images of ancient and modern cauterization instruments and techniques

1. AGNIKARMA
(AN ANCIENT AYURVEDIC THERAPY)

2. THE PRINCIPLE SOURCE OF THIS
HEALING HEAT IS OUR OWN SUN

5. SUPERIORITY OF AGNIKARMA
 What the drug will not cure, the knife
will cure!!!
 What the knife will not cure, the cautery
will cure!!!
 What the cautery will not cure, must be
considered incurable!!?
The Hippocratic Text of Aphorism

12. “Firing is a “traditional treatment, usually for leg
injuries, now dying out in the face of claims that it is
cruel. Skin over the flexor tendons, splints, fetlock
and knee joints, ringbone or curbs is burned with
red-hot iron. Penetration varies from superficial to
underlying tissues and causes scar tissue to form,
hardening the area; carried out under general or
local anaesthesia.
(western criteria)
ABOUT CAUTERIZATION …!

13.  From the dawn of history, man admired fire and its power.
Ancient cultures, especially the Persians, worshipped fire.
 Cautery is called Kaiy in Arabic.
 The prophet Mohammed (PBUH) did not forbid cautery but
discouraged the use of fire for treatment.
 The surgical book, Al-Tasrfi liman ‘ajaza’ an al-ta’lif written by
the Arab Andalusian surgeon, Abul Qasim Al Zahrawi
(Albucasis d. 1013 A.D) recommended cautery.
 The Arab cautery is similar in concept to the Chinese old
therapy of “Moxabustion.
ANCIENT VIEW OF AGNI

14.  The treatment of disease by the use of counter –
irritants, such as blistering and scarification, is as old as
medicine and is documented as far back as ancient
Egypt. Cauterization of wounds and ulcers also has a
long tradition.
 The use of cauterization as a counter-irritant in joint
disease appears to be much more recent. According to
Jame Syme (1862) it was introduced in Great Britain
about 1830.
THE ACTUAL CAUTERY

15.  FINAL REMEDY IN CAUTERY
Cautery is the last mode of therapy or cautery
is the final remedy” is an ancient Arab saying or
proverb.
 BEST IN GOLD
“A cautery is best made of gold”. Al Zahrawi.
BEST REMEDY AND BEST METAL

16.  All chemical changes are accompanied by the
absorption or release of heat. The intimate
connection between matter and energy has been a
source of wonder and speculation from the most
primitive times; it is no accident that fire was
considered one of the four basic elements (along
with earth, air, and water) as early as the fifth
century BC.
MODERN VIEW ON
PANCHAMAHA BHUTAS

17.  Ankylosing spondylitis
 Back pain
 Bursitis
 Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
 Constipation
 Crohn’s Disease
 Dupuytren’s Contracture
 Fibromyalgia
 Golfer’s Elbow
 Hemorrhoids
 Shoulder problems
 Sinus problems
 Spastic bowel
 Sprains & Strains
 Hip pain
 Hypertension
 Lactic acid build-up
 Menstrual cramps
 Osteoarthritis
 Plantar Fasciitis
 Repetitive Strain injury
 Rheumatoid Arthritis
 Rotator Cuff Tendonitis
 Sciatica
 Tendonitis
 Tennis Elbow
 Tension / Stress
 TMJ
INDICATIONS

18.  In Physics and thermodynamics, heat is
energy transferred from one body or
thermodynamic system to another due to
thermal contact when the systems are at
different temperatures. It is also often
described as the process of transfer of energy
between physical entities.
WHAT IS HEAT?

19.  The human body can easily absorb far-infrared heat
because of its deep penetrating abiliinfrared waves
can actually penetrate up to 2-3 inches deep into
muscular tissue and Ligaments.
 When far infrared heat penetrates through the skin
into muscular tissue and ligaments, it energy into
heat energy. The thermal effect within the deep
layers of tissues cause blood dilate which improves
blood circulation and promotes healing and wellness.
DEEP PENETRATING
HEAT

20. ANCIENT AGNIKARMA INSTRUMENTS

21. MODERN AGNIKARMA INSTRUMENTS

22. SOURCE OF FIRE

23. HEATING THE SHALAKAS

24. PLACING HOT METAL

25. AGNIKARMA SITES
FOR SCIATICA
11th
Century Photographs

26. ANCIENT AGNIKARMA SHALAKAS
11th
Century Photographs

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