Scope of Kashyapa Samhita and Samudra Shastra in Enhancing the Utility of Examination of Nails in Children
Author(s): 1 Mayank Srivastava, 2 G.P.Garg
Authors Affiliations:
1Assistant Professor, Faculty of Ayurved, Uttarakhand Ayurved University, Dehradun, India
2Professor, Faculty of Ayurved, Uttarakhand Ayurved University, Dehradun, India
DOIs:10.2015/IJIRMF/202512042 | Paper ID: IJIRMF202512042Abstract: Nails have aesthetic, functional, protective and predictive value. The uniqueness in structure and growth process of the nail is what makes them suitable for fulfilling these objectives. With a whole life ahead, examination of nails in childhood itself can provide parents and society a prolonged opportunity of ensuring that the child grows up in right direction. While modern science focuses on the medical aspects of nails, the Jyotish based literature as Samudra Shastra focuses on its future predictive aspects. In between these two lie the Ayurvedic literatures, especially the Lakshanadhyaya of Kashyapa Samhita, which offer the goodness of these two. A novel approach of simultaneous analysis of the features of nails in childhood on modern, Ayurvedic and Jyotish parameters can mutually compensate for their deficient areas in examination of nails with respect to health and future prediction. This review presents a unified examination plan of childhood nails in the aforesaid manner.
Mayank Srivastava, G.P.Garg (2025); Scope of Kashyapa Samhita and Samudra Shastra in Enhancing the Utility of Examination of Nails in Children, International Journal for Innovative Research in Multidisciplinary Field, ISSN(O): 2455-0620, Vol-11, Issue-12, Pp. 288-296. Available on – https://www.ijirmf.com/