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What "Ayurveda" means exactly?
Etymologically the term “Ayurveda” consists of two components:
1.- AYUS = Life, Life Force, Health
2.- VEDA = Completed Knowledge, Science
Thus, this term that practically means "The science of Life" implies a system that at first has nothing to do with illness and healing! As it is easily noted, within the name there exists no component referring to any "passion", which happens to homeopathy, allopathy etc., neither to any other form of therapy as in botanotherapy, phytotherapy, physiotherapy, chromotherapy, aromatherapy, and all the relative.
Main Principles
First of all, Ayurveda speaks on the Life itself, the whole Creation, how the Cosmos and Man were started and constructed. It reports details concerning the creation of the planets, the Earth, the creatures living in sea, land and air (animals and plants), continues with the daily life of human beings and the condition of the three " Levels of Existence" - the material "dense" body, the mental body and the Inner Nature. It describes all the conditions governing the environment in which the humans live and how this environment affects the human life, etc.
With what Ayurveda deals?
Ayurveda deals with how people get sick, while a great part of the Ayurvedic texts is dedicated to the Preventive Medicine, that is to say how the people will not get sick if they respecting and mainly accepting their True Nature and living in harmony with their environment. There exist enormous texts with extensive information on the prevention of all the known diseases.
Of course, if finally something goes wrong and various forms of diseases appear, Ayurveda describes also some ways through which the treatment comes for restoring the health. This last and healing branch of the whole system is divided in eight parts; each one deals with a separate sector of the healing art.
The medical “specialties” of Ayurveda
The sectors of that era that someone would call “medical specialties” (despite the fact that all the physicians knew the Medicine in its whole), are:
1.- SALYA: Surgery, confrontation of foreign substances, traumatology.
2.- SALAKYA: Ophthalmology, Otolaryngology, diseases of face in general and dentistry.
3.- KAYA CIKITSΑ: General pathology, diseases of the whole body.
4.- BHUTA VIDYA: Psychiatry, mental diseases, neurology.
5.- KAUMARA BHrTΥA: Gynecology, obstetrics, pediatrics.
6.- AGADA TANTRA: Toxicology, poisoning treatment.
7.- RASAYANA TANTRA: General well being, maintainance of good health, elixirs prolonging life, geriatrics.
8.- VAJIKARANA TANTRA: Venereology, elixirs for invigoration and increase of the sexual desire.
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