History of Medicine
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| Ayurveda | -ayus= life, life principle or long life
-veda= system of knowledge
**knowledge of (long) life**
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| Classic texts of Ayurvedic medicine | -Agnivesh tantra
-Susruta samhita
-Charaka samhita
-Ashtanga sangraha
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| Charaka samhita | -charaka= wandering religious student
-samhita= collection
-writings on therapeutic medicine, treatment by drugs and modification of diet and lifestyle
-animal plant and mineral drugs and formulae
-first to describe digestion, metabolism and immunity
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| Functions of the body according to Charaka samhita | -movement
-transformation
-lubrication and stability
*illness results from loss of balance among these*
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| 4 qualities of good ayurvedic physicians | -theoretical knowledge
-clarity of reasoning
-wide clinical experience
-personal skill
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| Chinese medicine | -origins obscured and no apparent outside influence
-Core beliefs= unity of nature, yin-yang balance, theory of 5 phases and theory of systematic correspondences
-understood circulation and importance of heart
-sphygmology
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| Maharishi Sushrut | -Founder of Surgery
-1500 BCE
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| Ancient texts in China | -Nei Ching= bible of traditional chinese healing
-Mo Ching= the pulse classic
-Golden Mirror= compilation of Han Dynasty writings
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| Disease/Treatment in Chinese Medicine | -imbalance of yin and yang
-treatment restores harmony
-curing spirit
-dietary management
-acupuncture
-pharmacotherapy
-treatment of bowel, viscera, blood and breath
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| 3 Quotes of Charaka samita | -a physician who fails to enter the body with knowledge and understanding can never treat disease
-first study all factors (environment) which influence a patients disease and then prescribe
-to prevent disease is more important that to seek a cure
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| Yin and Yang | -Yin is dark and downward seeking (water and earth)
-Yang is bright and active (fire and wind)
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| Acupuncture | purges energy and restores harmony between yin and yang
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| Moxa | -added to acupuncture sometimes
-warms region to stimulate circulation of life forces
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| Chinese medical agents adopted by Western medicine | -rhubarb-diarrhea
-iron-anemia
-Cannabis sativa-sedation
-chaulmoogra oil-leprosy
-Ephedra vulgaris-asthma
-rauwolfia-Hight blood pressure
-ginseng
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