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Bartone

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13 years ago

Ayurveda has a history that dates back to more than 5000 years, say the researchers. Initially the knowledge on this medical system had been passed on through generations orally. The first document that carries reference to Ayurveda is nothing but the Vedas. Hence, this healthcare system is believed to have been very popular among Indians since the Vedic age. Later came, Susrutha, Charaka and Vagbhata, who documented the treatment and doctrines of Ayurveda. But considering the popularity of the medical system, there might have been many other Ayurvedic practitioners, in various regions in the country, whose contributions to this field went unnoticed just because he/she had not documented anything.

Such a loss of information is very unfortunate for the human kind, considering the various challenges that we still face in the health sector. Nowadays, there are many local Ayurvedic practitioners in the remote areas of Kerala, apart from those working at ayurveda resorts kerala and Ayurveda Hospitals. The local practitioners are also good at prescribing the right herbal medicines for particular diseases. But they have kept the knowledge as a secret and they will only share it with one of their family members/disciples.

We should document their experience and knowledge too because in case we lose the information, it will be an irreparable loss for the medical field and the human kind as a whole.Hence it is necessary to systematically document the Ayurveda practices and methods without fail so that the knowledge can be passed through centuries and the coming generations can make use of it.

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Gulshan Kumar Ajmani

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13 years ago

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The need for recording all knowledge in books or electronic form can hardly be emphasized. Humans began to record knowledge since dawn of civilization on leaves and later papers. There were very crude and primitive way to record. Invention of paper and printing press revolutionized the way knowledge is put in black and white and passed on to future generations. This is not only Indian but other nations like China, Egypt, Greece who have huge ancient knowledge. The knowledge was passed on generartion to generation either in father son relation or from master to disciple. India had also a tradition of master pupil relation almost in every occupation. This is in fact basis for caste system.

The ancient knoledge may be in languages like Sanskrit, Pali and Prakrit. There is neeed to train some people especially youth in these languages and the literature and other contents thereof. Possibly, the manuscripts of ancient books may be rare and difficult to find. The professionals trained for acquirng and preserving ancient knowledge need to be paid well so as to encourage them in this pursuit. More so, because the youth are tempted more to multinationals paying handsomely. We cannot expect people to devote their time and energy in studying ancient languages, searching for old manuscripts and reading and broadcating these without suitable remuneration.

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chinmoymukherjee

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13 years ago

#130176

There is no doubt that we are lagging far behind in this area as ancient India was known to be store-house of knowledge in almost all shpheres of knowledge.The practical problems are too many but we have to make appropriate efforts to retrieve the past and document them for ourselves and the generations to come.Thanks a lot for highlighting it!

Kalyani Nandurkar

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13 years ago

#130194

Thanks for highlighting this subject. Ayurveda indeed is a very highly advanced science and people are now returning back to it after realizing that Allopathy and other streams are not completely foolproof and 100% perfect.

All of these are actually very well documented and full-fledged research is going on these fields even today. But unfortunately, today's education system and the socioeconomic statuses have resulted in people not looking beyond only a handful few faculties. People who are genuinely interested need to look beyond it and take interest in researching these subjects.

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