AYURVEDA - THE OLDEST MEDICAL SYSTEM IN THE WORLD
India is a subcontinent with 3 million square kilometers, a population of one billion, which speaks 18 languages in over 1000 dialects and has a history of over 5000 years, during which time appeared a sum of civilizations, kingdoms and empires.
These people were known for their contributions in medicine, astronomy and mathematics, and the knowledge gained can be used as source of information for development of the medicine in this new millennium.
Indian medical manuscripts dating is difficult because the timing India pales before eternity and history is lost in legend and myth.
People of different ages have the same name and they often can not know about anything specific.
Legends are the very beings of the most famous we can not accurately recover the thread of existence. The important papers were saved, and transmission be made in their Master-disciple relationship with respect to the text and all the smallest details of it.
Vedas, the sacred Indian texts that contain the first record on Ayurvedic medicine, have been dated April millennium before Christ, by the year 4000 even after data astronomical deducted from their verses.
Of the four Vedas: Rigveda, Yajurveda, and Atharvaveda Samaveda in Atharvaveda there are the largest health information in the form of 114 hymns including descriptions of diseases and their treatment.
Subsequent treaties are of Buddhist Ayurveda and the most important are the Charaka Samhita, a complex work consisting of eight books, dealing separately anatomy, embryology, physiology, etiopathogenesis, diagnosis, prognosis and various therapies are inserted very substantial medical philosophical concepts necessary to understand the hidden mechanisms of body function.
These esoteric notions that reveal subtle anatomy of the human psyche and body are found in particular in the psychiatric industry, science Manasaroga or diseases caused the head of this vast medical system.
The other important treaty Susruta Samhita, the oldest book that deals extensively about surgery, and it is composed of several volumes, with inset wider issues about internal medicine treatments.
This paper has managed to capture the surgical instruments described by modern scientists, very similar to current operations and the complexity of surgery described in some cases such as organ transplants states and could not be matched today.
In great universities of ancient India, the Nalanda and Takshasila, today extinct, to study medicine for seven years, during which students receive no vacation, and at the end of this period were considered beginners, although some were practicing surgery.
Perhaps nowhere more than in India, science and medicine in particular appears as a cultural phenomenon and deeply humanist scientific achievement because there was not separated from the spiritual.
I must add that today India is the only country in the world where there are three types of state medical faculties: Faculty of Ayurvedic Medicine course for six years, modern medicine, the West is six years studying and faculty of homeopathy lasting five years.
Therefore there are three types of doctors and the patient may opt for treatment in hospitals or offices through one of three methods.
Being practiced for centuries, Ayurveda has come to be very systematic. There are eight large specific branches of Ayurveda, which also include numerous procedures ultraspecialized.
These branches are:
• Kaya - General Practitioner
• Shalya - general surgery
• Salakya - diseases of the ear, nose, throat and mouth otorhinolaryngology
• Bhutavidya - Psychiatry
• Kanmara or Kaumarabhrudya - Pediatrics
• Agadez - Toxicology
• Rasayana - rejuvinating and geriatric tonic
• Vajikarana - male sources, sexology and science of aphrodisiacs and family planning.
Ayurveda is based on deep knowledge of the mysteries of life.
Therapies in Ayurveda are very cleverly designed for maximum results to avoid adverse reactions and strong interactions with the patient's organism, massage oil therapy is a gentle cure for patients, which is applied to the entire surface of the skin.
Therapeutic remedies, true treasures of Health, are based on aromatic herbs, from which they extracted oil and administer them within the body.
By pressing the vital energy points, by unblocking the meridians, by feeding the deep tissues with oils, Ayurvedic therapies millennium and today we are amazed by their effectiveness.
Ayurveda Treatment leads to a reintegration of life harmony. It is frequently started by antistress therapies and those who prepare the patient for easy purification therapies actual disposal of waste accumulated over time and possible action are extremely active natural medicinal preparations.
Currently performing research to develop extremely potent remedies by the ancient Ayurvedic recipes, but using extracts from plants indigenous equivalent. No illness or pain that does not receive treatment in Ayurveda.
Holistic natural medicine man perceives it as a whole and not only addresses the diseased organs. Each patient is treated in a unique, perfectly adapted to the constitution and health.
Being so complex practice, Ayurveda is both healthy human preventive medicine, and a way of healing most diseases.