Saturday 7 April 2012

Emedinews:Insights on Medicolegal issues:Antiquity of Indian medicine & medical education: Charak Samhita



Acharya Charak has been crowned as the Father of Medicine. His renowned work, the "Charak Samhita" is considered as an encyclopedia of Ayurveda. His principles, diagnoses and cures retain their potency and truth even after a couple of millennia. In Europe, when the science of anatomy was confused with different theories, Acharya Charak revealed through his innate genius and enquiries, the facts on human anatomy, embryology, pharmacology, blood circulation and diseases like diabetes, tuberculosis, heart disease, etc. In the "Charak Samhita" he has described the medicinal qualities and functions of 100,000 herbal plants. He has proved the correlation of spirituality and physical health and contributed greatly to diagnostic and curative medical sciences. He enumerated the ethical charter for medical practitioners two centuries prior to the Hippocratic Oath.

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