Acharya Charak: Father of the Indian medicine
Acharya Charak: Father of Indian Medicine (PC — Wikipedia)
Ayurveda is a Vedic scripture written thousands of years ago. The science of Ayurveda has been created by various types of plants and elements found in nature to maintain health as well as cure diseases without any kind of side effects.
There are three basic texts of Ayurveda Treatments. One of which is the Charak Samhita. This voluminous scripture on treatment is the ideal scripture of the world of Ayurveda in human beings.
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Creation of Ayurveda Granth Charak Samhita:
Hippocrates is known as the father of the medical world. But very few people know that even in the time of Hippocrates, thousands of years ago, Acharya Charak in India, gave the gift of the first book of medicine i.e. Charak Samhita to the whole world. That is why Acharya Charak is hailed as the father of Indian medicine.
One of the characteristics of mythological texts is that they are not composed of a single person. Knowledge and information are added to such texts from time to time by a group of highly knowledgeable individuals. Due to which these types of texts are becoming completely informative and ideal.
The creation of the Charak Samhita is also seen to have happened similarly. Sage Agnivesh was one of the six disciples of Sage Atreya Punarvasu. Agnivesh was the first to compile the teachings of Punarvasu and compile the Samhita. A few years later, a sage named Charak, a disciple of Vaishnavism, added various information to the Samhita created by this Agnivesh. With this information, the Granth became so rich that it became famous under the name of Charak Samhita. At the same time, Charak came to be known as Acharya Charak. The Charak Samhita was later amended by a sage named Drupal.
Acharya Charak was a native of northwestern India. It is said that he was always on the move for the study of various plants as well as for the knowledge of information, and that is why he was named Charak. The word charak in Sanskrit means — a person who is always on the move. The time of Acharya Charak dates back to 100–200 BC.
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Features of Charak Samhita:
1) Charak Samhita is written entirely in the Sanskrit language. This treatise is written in the poetic style of verse in the Sanskrit language.
2) One of the great things about the verses of Charak Samhita is that the text is very elaborately described in very few words. Moreover, Acharya Charak understood that this verse is very easy to memorize. Pure knowledge of Sanskrit language is essential to understand the verse. The common wise person may understand the meaning of the verse easily but the wise person will understand the hidden meaning of the verse well.
3) According to Acharya Charak, life is made up of events of happiness and sorrow. The Charak Samhita written by him mentions happy and benevolent life as well as sad and unhappy life. That is to say, soon this code of Ayurveda can be said to be the secret key to living a beautiful, prosperous, and good life.
4) There are eight main sections in the Charak Samhita. Even in these oral sections, there is a wonderful critique of medicine in the form of various chapters.
I. Sutra Sthan (Chapter 30)
II. Nidaan Sthan (Chapter 8)
III. Vimaan Sthan (Chapter 8)
IV. Sharir Sthan (Chapter 8)
V. Indriya Sthan (Chapter 12)
VI. Chikitsa Sthan (Chapter 30)
VII. Kalpa Sthan (Chapter 12)
VIII. Siddhi Sthan (Chapter 12)
5) Charak explains that the human body is made up of three natures namely air, bile, and phlegm. Acharya Charak also said that this body nature is inherited by a person from the time of his birth by his parents. And the idea of what a person’s comfortable lifestyle should be according to nature is also well presented.
