Article by Dr Raghuram Y.S. MD (Ay) & Dr Manasa S, B.A.M.S
Incident 1
‘I will provide you with one yr’s time. On the finish of the stipulated time, get me one thing which isn’t a medication. Your time begins now!” – mentioned Guruji to his disciples. This was a take a look at for all his college students, an final one, to see and analyze how far they’ve learnt, how clever they’re and the way good a doctor each might be.
On the finish of the stipulated time, all the scholars assembled on the Ashram. Every pupil was having one or the opposite factor of their hand. They had been able to current what they’d bought to their trainer and show that it might not serve the aim of a medication and therefore can’t be used as drugs.
Every pupil completed with their presentation. The trainer was sitting silently, not giving his opinion straightaway. He was all ears. Lastly the trainer noticed that face he was trying to find. This disciple of his was standing behind all different college students, hiding his face all of the whereas. He was the final one not noted. He was standing along with his head bent. He didn’t have something in his hand. All different college students began laughing at him. The trainer referred to as him. ‘Please come to me, my youngster. What have you ever bought?’. The scholar reached the trainer, fell on his toes and mentioned ‘Guruji, I’m empty handed. Sorry, I disenchanted you’. The trainer stood up and lifted the younger man holding his shoulders. He lifted his disciple’s chin. Tears rolled down on the cheeks of the disciple. The trainer requested him, wanting straight into his eyes. ‘Why did you not get something? You had on a regular basis on this planet. It was a easy take a look at’. The disciple mentioned – ‘Revered Trainer, I didn’t discover something; I imply something…which can’t be used as a medication. I spotted that the creation is so superbly designed by the almighty that all the things he has created is with a objective and all the things can be utilized as a medication when skillfully considered it’.
The smile of pleasure on the face of the trainer silenced the sarcastic crowd of pupils. The trainer tapped on the again of his disciple who had not introduced something. This assured the remainder of the group that their trainer was anticipating ‘precisely this’ and that ‘one amongst them’ is totally proper. Then got here a loud cheer of appreciation from his fellow mates. The disciple smiled.
The grasp acknowledged the brilliance of his disciple and declared ‘Sure, all the things on this creation can be utilized as a medication; you simply want that intention and imaginative and prescient’.
The disciple on this story is popularly recognized to the Ayurveda world by the identify ‘JIVAKA’.
Jivaka was a recent of Gautama Buddha and was additionally a doctor for the latter and his disciples. Jivaka can be designated because the ‘first ever neurosurgeon’ recognized to Ayurveda and humankind. He was believed to be the primary ever doctor to have carried out craniotomy.
Incident 2 – centuries later
One of many academics I do know was speaking on a given matter on the dais, in a convention which I too attended. I used to be amidst the viewers watching him do the speak. He too quoted within the circulate of his presentation ‘all the things on this world is a medication and nothing escapes this rule’.
One infamous pupil raised his hand. ‘Excuse me sir. How do you justify human feces as drugs?’ he mentioned, with a naughty smile on his face with an conceited surety that he has trapped the professor in his personal phrases.
The ‘Professor’ gave a smile and mentioned – ‘I assume being an Ayurveda pupil you may have heard about Vamana, the therapeutic emesis?’
The scholar nodded with an conceited sarcastic smile.
The professor continued. ‘There are some sufferers in whom the emesis can’t be induced or emesis doesn’t occur simply regardless of all preparation and having been administered with correct amount of emetic drugs. Get the human feces near such sufferers. The sight and scent would trigger disgust in them and they’d instantly vomit. Human feces my pricey, can be utilized as vamanopaga – an emesis stimulant’.
There was a deafening cheer within the auditorium. The applause of appreciation to the good knowledge of a senior trainer for such a hit-back reply was anticipated. The questioner too couldn’t resist. His clap got here with the loudest sound. He was embarrassed past doubt. However his eyes confirmed that he had realized what he had achieved and was apologetic. However the calmness and serenity on the face of the trainer was noteworthy. He nodded on the pupil gracefully.
The act of the scholar may have been thought-about as contempt amidst elite gathering however the nice Guru had handled it in a witty approach. All of us had a lesson to hold residence on the finish of the session.
Within the first story, the disciple mentioned one thing which bought the applause of his trainer and colleagues. I had heard that story. Centuries later I turned the witness of an identical story. The distinction was that right here it was the trainer who mentioned the identical factor and acquired thunderous applause from his college students and colleagues. I learnt ‘JIVAKA COMES IN DIFFERENT FORMS’ to maintain the fundamentals and fundamentals of Ayurveda alive.
The ethical of the story in each cases is identical. ‘Every little thing you consider on this creation is a medication. The creation has a number of therapeutic gadgets and factors. Our imaginative and prescient must be better’.
Grasp Vagbhata’s Model
Effectively, now have a look at what our personal Grasp Vagbhata tells us.
जगत्येवमनौषधम्।
न किञ्चिद्विध्यते द्रव्यं वशान्नानार्थयोगयोः॥अ.हृ.सू.९/१०॥
jagatyevamanauṣadham|
na kiñcidvidhyate dravyaṃ vaśānnānārthayogayoḥ||a.hṛ.sū.9/10||
Which means – ‘Nothing within the universe exists (not even a small factor) which can’t be used as a medication. A correct and exact information of each substance within the creation permits one (the doctor) to manage them as medicines in numerous varieties and to derive a number of advantages (therapeutic results) from them’.
To sum up, Grasp Vagbhata tells ‘Every little thing on this universe is a medication’.
Abstract
With this information and consciousness, once we go searching us, each part of the materialistic world appears to work like a medication, assigned and designed to be part of the therapeutic system.
The universe is created from the 5 parts of nature and each single factor has these parts in various proportions. The human physique too is created from the exact same parts of nature pierced with a life component – the atma. The meals substances and medicines, herbs and crops and the animal kingdom – all are made up of 5 parts of nature. They compensate for the panchabhautika (5 parts) imbalances within the physique and assist in the therapeutic course of, prevention of illnesses, progress, restoration, rejuvenation and steadiness of well being. So, a lot of the medicines are panchabhautika in origin.
Crops, timber, soil, water, fireplace, air, area, meat, stones, fruits, seeds, grains, greens, leaves, flowers, roots, shoots, animal merchandise like milk and derivatives of milk (curds, butter, ghee and so forth), hairs, nails, metals, minerals, gems, horns, urine, oil, ghee, all the things can be utilized as a medication.
Grasp Vagbhata says {that a} correct understanding of every and all the things surrounding us could be very a lot important in placing this stuff into numerous types of utilization within the type of drugs / remedy and in addition to derive many sorts of helpful outcomes from utilizing them within the remedy course of. The advantages are within the type of reduction and treatment for the sufferers and establishing well being in them and a self satisfaction of reaching the identical. Prevention and treatment of illnesses in an ailing particular person and upkeep of well being in wholesome people is the motive of Ayurveda remedy and it’s the main accountability of any Ayurveda doctor to work in the direction of reaching the identical. In doing so he shall put something within the creation which can be utilized as drugs into use and procure the specified outcomes. For a doctor who’s a visionary and skilful ‘something and all the things within the universe is a medication’.
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