Origin of Ayurvedic Surgery | Historical background
Decline of Ayurvedic Surgery

• Straw
• Wood pieces,
• Stones and pebbles
• Dust particles
• Metallic articles
• Bone pieces
• Hair, 
• Nails etc.

Treatment for the same deals with the use of blunt and sharp instruments.
  

• Teeth, 
• Hairs, 
• Nails, etc. 
• The vitiated forms of the tissues, 
• Dietary excretory products and 
• Humors.

• The exogenous foreign bodies are all other materials except the endogenous ones. They produce harmful effects within the body. 

• Chhedan (Excision) 
  To cut away a part from its origin
    
• Bhedan (Incision)
  To make a cut on or in a surface
   
• Lekhan (Scraping or Curetting)
  To scratch away unwanted tissue
   
• Vedhan (Puncturing)
  To pierce the surface
   
• Eshan (Probing)
  To elicit the direction or the length of the tract
   
• Aaharan (Extraction)
  The act of removal of a part of the body by pulling
   
• Visaravan (Drainage)
  To Draw away unrequired, unwanted fluid in the body cavity
   
• Seevan (Suturing)
  Technique for closure of surgical and non-surgical wound