HISTORY OF AYURVEDA

Ayurveda one of the most ancient Indian medical culture in the world which have a traditional value of more than 5000 years. Ayurveda means “complete knowledge for long life”. Ayurveda preaches the philosophy of life. Because the word Ayurveda is derived from ancient Indian language Sanskrit in which ayur means ‘life’. No other medical culture other than ayurveda gives a detailed explanation about human body. Ayurveda is actually based on Atharvaveda which contains principles of healing. Ayurveda is based on certain principles of pancha mahabutha, tridosha etc. It is said that Srila Vyasaveda wrote Vedas and those Vedas contained a branch called ayurveda. As per Indian culture, it has been classified according to four Vedas they are Rik Veda, Sama Veda, Yujur Veda, Atharva Veda. In this Rig Veda is based on the nature of existence, it is one of the oldest surviving book of Indo-European culture. It is said that Ayurveda originated from India and influenced the ancient Chinese system of medicine and medical system practiced in Greece. Ayurveda in other words can be said as “Mother of all healing” , Indian art of healing. Ayurvedic culture is as old as Hinduism. The concept of ayurveda was actually laid by muni’s and rishis of great Indian ranges and as years passed Ayurveda got its own dignity and its own culture. Basic forms of life is air, water, fire, ether. It consists of three aspects of Ayurvedic knowledge known as the Tri-sutras which explains cause of illness, symptoms and treatments of the diseases. This tri-sutras was elaborated into another eight divisions. Earlier times of ayurveda there was two main schools of Ayurveda which was Atreya and Dhanvantari, in this Atreya was the school of physicians and dhanvantari was the school of surgeons. These both schools made ayurveda scientifically verifiable and classifiable medical system. It is said that when diseases and death started to create havoc, all great sages gathered together to find a solution for it, during this time a sage called Bharadvaja took initiative to learn the art of healing from Indra. He then taught it to Atreya who further transmitted this knowledge through out the word. Atreya then wrote Agnivesha Samhita a comprehensive form of ayurveda. It is said that concept of ayurveda evolved so. Books of ayurveda was translated to many other languages this itself says that Ayurveda is a type of treatment accepted by the people around the world.

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