History and Origin of Ayurveda
The word Ayurveda comes from the word ayur which means life and Veda that is to know. Popularly known as the science of life. Ayurveda is a medical system practiced in India, Nepal and Srilanka. Ayurveda has its origin since 5000 years in India. It is a part of spiritual tradition of the Santana dharma (universal religion) or Vedic dharma of India. Ayurveda focus on healthy living than treatment of diseases. The initial concept of Ayurveda was put up in writing for future reference was by vedavyasa, the famous sage and shaktavesha avatar of Vishnu. There are 8 disciplines of Ayurveda treatment called ashtangas;
1. Kaya chikitsa (internal medicine)
2. Shalya tantra (surgery)
3. Bhuta vidya (psychiatry)
4. Shalakya
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preventive medicine and social medicine
2.therapeutics
The main objective of Ayurveda medicine is to help a fit person to continue good health
And to help a sick person to recover good health. The reason Ayurveda was designed was to support a human happiness with physical mental and spiritual level.
Disease can be reduced if there is proper balance of all vital energies in body .this can be done through proper food, living habits and even through herbal remedies.
There are many universities in India which provide formal education in Ayurveda.in order to get education in modern science, students join these courses. But as it is not able to understand the basis methods of Ayurveda because since there is no method to experiment validation of these methods. According to few of the medical knowledge which seems to accept the basic knowledge of Ayurveda they have realized there importance of body rhythms in disease .they also came to know that there are few drugs which act as a double edge weapons to these diseases.
These are through the knowledge gained in recent realization during past 5 decades.
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Europe and America gained popularity in best massage or therapy. In some India’s neighboring country of India like Srilanka.
In Nepal and Bangladesh: Here Ayurveda has a better status as a patchy. Different countries have been classified into various category
First category comes Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh.
Here system is practiced with recognition from government.
In the second category comes
Countries like Argentina, Australia, Brazil,
Germany, Hungary, Italy, Malaysia, Singapore, Arab countries like UAE, Oman etc. here there is an increasing awareness about Ayurveda.
In Mauritius, an Ayurveda clinic is successfully running with the Government Recognition. The Government sends
Students to India to learn Ayurveda. The people
Started becoming more awareness of the system in the recent past.
Sultanate of Oman
The Sultan of Oman was treated by an Ayurvedic Doctor and he was so overwhelmed that he has recognized the system of Ayurveda medicine.
And he has given approval to the system, acceptance of medicine
Test for qualified Ayurveda Doctors to practice in the Sultanate of Oman.
Rama who was discussed in the beginning of chapter 1. Her ideas focus on yajinopathic medicine, where healing is satisfactory when the stars are aligned. Reid descried his treatment as not typical. This is the case because India does not have an insurance plan, everything is paid out of pocket. My first thought was how does anyone afford health care?
It also affirms the Muslims’ aspiration towards better lives for themselves, describing how the Arab leaders wanted their illnesses treated by competent doctors, not by random citizens. This prompted the establishment of a medical examination for potential doctors, which definitely had a positive effect on the Muslim medical field, based on the incredible medical advances made during this time. All of these advances also resulted in the creation of many new medical books. Document 3 describes a multi-volume medical encyclopedia, The Canon of Medicine, that was particularly influential. These books, once translated into European languages and passed onto the doctors of Europe, was the standard for medical knowledge in schools until the 18th century, proving how advanced the Arab’s medical discoveries were for their time.
I had the privilege to talk to Lia Lee. Lee is a 67 years olds Hmong woman. She is a mother to 5 children, 31 grandchildren, and 15 great-grandchildren. Lee and husband Va Toua Xiong with her 4 children were sponsored by a church in St. Paul. They arrived in St. Paul, Minnesota in November 1980.
There are many different cultures in the world and how they approach medical needs may not all be the same. As a Vietnamese American I know both ways how American people and Vietnamese people approach for healthcare. Most American when we are sick we go to the doctors and they diagnose us with whatever and give us a prescription for medication or would refer us out to a specialist that would be able to help us. While Asians or better yet Vietnamese when we get sick we sometimes do not just go to the doctors we try herbal medications at home on our own and on what knowledge we know and from our friends and families. Also we believe in that acupuncture can help us from a lot of different things it can help with trembling, aches and such.
My main goal as a Naturopathic Physician is to help my patients
A lot of surveys have been done over the years about the ethological aspect of these practices since they are sometimes considered holistic and unfounded since many healing practices are composed of rituals and sacred bundles used by shamans or witches. To a foreign audience, it might be at first disorienting and doubtful because medicine in our world is considered a science and revolves around collected data unlike religious practices. A survey made in 1994 states that “Many respondents indicated that they were unsure what traditional Native medicine entailed and thus had difficulty forming an opinion on whether it would be appropriate in various settings, especially in the hospital. In fact, 16% of the physicians indicated this directly, and another 14% left the question blank, when asked for their definition of traditional Native medicine (Table 2). Eighty-one percent believed that the use of traditional Native medicine was not an important issue in their community, although 41% knew of at least one patient in their practice using such medicines, and 15% knew of more than five patients using them.
Today, the medical world recognizes two tips of medicine, the conventional medicine known as Western and the Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM). Although, they are by logic completely opposites in practice the have some similarities. The first one, is accepted in most of the advance countries. Though, the second one is having a lot of attention not just from de common people but from the biomedical system as part of their usual treatments. That is why the differences and similarities between Chiropractic as part of the CAM world and the Biomedical Model are getting smaller and closer together.
The most home health remedies or healing beliefs are the medicinal plants utilized by herbolarios, heriberos, yerberos, or yerbateros. And the species often used are the arnica, cuahalalate, tila, gordolobo (Mullein), salvia, cola de caballo (horsetail), and boldo. All these medications have different purpose, for instance the arnica is commonly used for injuries such as sprains and bruises and is for skin only, gordolobo (Mullein) is used for cough, whooping cough, bronchitis and for many more purpose, the cola de caballo (horsetail) is used to treat many health conditions such as, gingivitis, tonsillitis, inflammation of the mucous membranes of the mouth, rheumatic disorders, edema, osteoarthritis, diabetes, acne, wounds, itchiness, rashes, burns and many more. Even do all this remedies are remedies of Zacatecas, now we even have them here in United States. Are remedies that the time has shown that they work and are
Medicine has slowly evolved over the years each year coming up with new advancements. For many years eastern medicine strived, many cultures believed in many different things but all these beliefs
The two countries share the manner in which their physicians are treated. In order to keep the care consistent and always improving, these issues need to be
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The University of Maryland Medical Center states that Herbal Therapy also called botanical medicine or phytomedicine, refers to using plant’s, seeds, berries, leaves, barks, or flowers for medicinal purposes. Herbalism has a long tradition of use outside conventional medicine. It is becoming more mainstream as improvements in analysis and quality control, along with advances in clinical research, show the value of herbal medicine in treating and preventing diseases. Herbal medicine is a natural, non-toxic way to treat many conditions of ill-health. It is holistic, meaning it treats the whole person, embracing all levels of an individual: physical, mental, emotional and spiritual.
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