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Classical Ayurvedic Texts Flashcards

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Brihat Trayi

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Three Great Texts of Ayurveda: Charaka Samhita, Sushruta Samhita & Ashtanga Hridyam Samhita

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Laghu Trayi

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Minor Ayurvedic Texts Minor Texts Bhava Prakash Samhita, Sharngadar Samhita, Madhav Nidan Samhita

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Three Pillars

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sharir (body) sattva (mind) atma (concsiousness)

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Sharir

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Body

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Sattva

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Mind

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Atma

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Consciousness

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A core them of Ayurveda

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self-referral mechanism

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Charaka Samhita

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Ancient Medical Guide/Major Ayurvedic Text, discussing theories of human body, etiology, symptomology and therapeutics. Pre-second century text with 8 books, 129 chapters. Sections on importance of diet, hygiene, prevention, medical education, the teamwork of a physician, nurse and patient necessary for recovery. Charaka is healing medicine.

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Sushruta Samhita

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Ancient Major Ayurvedic Text. human physiology and surgery.

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Ashtanga Hridyam Samhita

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Major Ayurvedic Text, Rejuvenation

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Bhava Prakash Samhita

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Minor Ayurvedic Text whose main focus is on Medicine and Rejuvenation.

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Sharngadar Samhita

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Minor Ayurvedic Text, Focus on Pulse Reading, collecting and synthesizing information

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Madhav Nidan Samhita

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Collect all the information in terms of balance or imbalance and habits and cause, synthesize and put them all together. Represents the diagnosing, detecting and recognizing value of consciousness. In the physiology,

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Definition of Life (Ayus)

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conjunction (joining) of gross element to subtlest element. Body, senses, mind, consciousness (sharir, indriya, sattva, atma)

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The Trisutra (threefold knowledge)

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Ayurveda providing knowledge of etiology (hetu) , Symptomology (ling) and therapeutics (aushadh),

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Pragya- aparadh

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mistaken intellect – disconnection from the intelligence

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Asatmya indriya samyong

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wrong contact with senses.

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Parinam

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– time in relation to age, season, to time of the year, etc

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Three Causes (Hetu) of Disorders

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Perverted, negative and excessive use of time (kala), intelligence (Buddhi) and sense objects (Indriyarthanam) is the threefold cause of both psychic and somatic disorders.

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Hetu

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Cause, etiology

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