Lecture 1: Ayurvedic (Indian Hindu) Medicine Flashcards

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How is Ayurvedic medicine similar to Chinese medicine?

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it is a holistic approach

it stresses the importance of integration and balance in life

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What are the two treatments levels of Ayurvedic medicine and describe.

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Ministerial Level - provides a herbal remedy for each ailment
Sovereign Level - provided herbal mixtures or potions to defeat all miniseries of illness
– Claim that western medicine only provides treatment at ministerial levels but that only sovereign cures can treat the root causes of ministerial -level ailments

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Three stages of treatment

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  1. Cleansing
  2. Palliation
  3. Rejuvenation
    - - herbal preparations play a critical role in all three of these treatment stages
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Cleansing

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treatment includes purging, blood cleansing, and nasal cleansing in order to remove bodily toxins

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Pallination

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Treatment involves the taking of herbs, fasting, chanting, yoga, mediation, and sunning to achieve and balance of doshas

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Doshas

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types of body structures and metabolisms, which are determined individually by an Ayuredic practitioner prior to treatment

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Rejuvenation

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treatment involves the use of herbal tonics to revitalize the metabolism

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Rigveda

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an ancient repository of human knowledge written ~1700-1100 BCE

  • consists of 1028 hymns
  • many praises the virtures of the divine soma
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Soma

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bloom-less, rootless, and leafless plant or substance having divine and mystical properties
– sounds like describing a mushroom

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Where was the rigveda written and were was is brought to>

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written on the high platues of central asia

and brought to the Indian subcontinent by the Aryan ppl ~3500ya

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Foundation of ancient medical science in Hindu India

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Ayurveda (1000BCE)

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Ayurveda

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a detailed account of plant drugs and their uses

  • consists of 8 sections dealing with internal medicine, surgery, head and neck, toxicology , mental disorders, paediatrics, geriatrics, and aphrodisiacs
  • followed by two expanded works 2500 ya
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Susruta

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detailed text on surfer, therapetucs and medicinal plants

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Charaka

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contains 12 chapters on the medical plants (materia medica) known to the ancient hindues

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Sustruta and Charaka are both influenced by:

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early greek , Roman, and islmaic medicine

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16
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Greek and indian civilizations were in communication during the time of..

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Alexander the Great (356-323 BCE) when Ayurvedic medicine was at its peak

17
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The advanced knowledge of herbal therapy and toxicology in India was later reported by ..

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Dioscordies who mentions a number of plant s of indian origin not previously known in Europe

18
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These plant that were not before mentioned included:

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Datura - leaves are smoked by asthmatics
Strychnos - containing strychine and used to induce paralysis
Croton - a powerful purgative

19
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The Romans later developed an extensive trade in Indian drugs, leading to ..

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Pliny (23-79CE) to comment on the high cost of importing drugs and spices from India

20
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which changes were brought with the advent of Buddhism

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Sugery was viewed as a form a violence and banned. With this came further additions to herbal lore and establishment of medical plant gardens.

21
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Where did buddhism spread Ayurvedic medical concepts?

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Sri Lanka, Nepal, Tubet, Mongolica, China, Korea, and Japan.

22
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when did Ayurvedic medicine begin to decline?

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during successive invasions of the Indian subcontinent beginning with the greeks (160-130BCE), followed by tthe Scythians (80BCE) and Islamic Arabs (1000CE). By the time islamic medicine was introduced into india, the traditional practices of Ayurvedic medicine were already in decline