It has been truly said that medicine was conceived in sympathy and born out of necessity and that the first doctor was the first man, and the first woman, the first nurse. The prehistoric man, motivated by feelings of sympathy and kindness, was always at the behest of his kindred, trying to provide relief, in times of sickness and suffering.
As a logical sequence, the medicine he practised consisted in appeasing gods by prayers, rituals and sacrifices, driving out “evil spirits” from the human body.
Primitive medicine is timeless. If we look around the world, we find that the rudiments of primitive medicine still persist in many parts of the world- in Asia, Arica and India. In India, one may still hear the talk of curing snake bites by “mantras”. …show more content…
The survival of the species demands that simultaneously with the appearance of disease, all living things must have also evolved the means to combat disease. The higher animals are guided by instinct to seek remedies for illness in plants and herbs. Man with his superior intelligence must necessarily have extended the scope of this search for remedies. So if we discount the myth of a Garden of Eden which man had to abandon when he fell from grace, “the thousand ills that flesh is heir to” must have afflicted man from his birth and the dawn of medicine must have synchronized with the dawn of disease.2
The medical system is truly Indian in origin and is developed in terms of the Ayurveda and the Sidda systems. The written source of the ancient books known as the Vedas, the divine books of knowledge they propounded, and more specifically the fourth of the series, namely Atharvaveda that dates back to around 1000 B.C. SrilaVyasadeva wrote down the Vedas for the first time, which include a branch called as the Ayurveda. Ayurveda originate over 5000 years ago in the magnificent Himalayas, one of the greatest sages of India. And it is initially practised in Tamil- speaking areas of South
As a logical sequence, the medicine he practised consisted in appeasing gods by prayers, rituals and sacrifices, driving out “evil spirits” from the human body.
Primitive medicine is timeless. If we look around the world, we find that the rudiments of primitive medicine still persist in many parts of the world- in Asia, Arica and India. In India, one may still hear the talk of curing snake bites by “mantras”. …show more content…
The survival of the species demands that simultaneously with the appearance of disease, all living things must have also evolved the means to combat disease. The higher animals are guided by instinct to seek remedies for illness in plants and herbs. Man with his superior intelligence must necessarily have extended the scope of this search for remedies. So if we discount the myth of a Garden of Eden which man had to abandon when he fell from grace, “the thousand ills that flesh is heir to” must have afflicted man from his birth and the dawn of medicine must have synchronized with the dawn of disease.2
The medical system is truly Indian in origin and is developed in terms of the Ayurveda and the Sidda systems. The written source of the ancient books known as the Vedas, the divine books of knowledge they propounded, and more specifically the fourth of the series, namely Atharvaveda that dates back to around 1000 B.C. SrilaVyasadeva wrote down the Vedas for the first time, which include a branch called as the Ayurveda. Ayurveda originate over 5000 years ago in the magnificent Himalayas, one of the greatest sages of India. And it is initially practised in Tamil- speaking areas of South