Article by Dr Raghuram Y.S. MD (Ay) & Dr Manasa S, B.A.M.S
Incident 1
‘I gives you one yr’s time. On the finish of the stipulated time, get me one thing which isn’t a drugs. Your time begins now!” – mentioned Guruji to his disciples. This was a check 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 may be.
On the finish of the stipulated time, all the scholars assembled on the Ashram. Every scholar was having one or the opposite factor of their hand. They have been able to current what that they had obtained to their trainer and show that it will not serve the aim of a drugs and therefore can’t be used as drugs.
Every scholar 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 in the back of all different college students, hiding his face all of the whereas. He was the final one omitted. 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 obtained?’. The coed 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, trying straight into his eyes. ‘Why did you not get something? You had on a regular basis on the planet. It was a easy check’. The disciple mentioned – ‘Revered Trainer, I didn’t discover something; I imply something…which can’t be used as a drugs. I noticed that the creation is so superbly designed by the almighty that every thing he has created is with a goal and every thing can be utilized as a drugs when skillfully considered it’.
The smile of delight 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 gang 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, every thing on this creation can be utilized as a drugs; you simply want that intention and imaginative and prescient’.
The disciple on this story is popularly recognized to the Ayurveda world by the title ‘JIVAKA’.
Jivaka was a up to date of Gautama Buddha and was additionally a doctor for the latter and his disciples. Jivaka can also 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 lecturers 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 discuss. He too quoted within the stream of his presentation ‘every thing on this world is a drugs and nothing escapes this rule’.
One infamous scholar 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 boastful surety that he has trapped the professor in his personal phrases.
The ‘Professor’ gave a smile and mentioned – ‘I suppose being an Ayurveda scholar you’ve got heard about Vamana, the therapeutic emesis?’
The coed nodded with an boastful 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 odor would trigger disgust in them and they might instantly vomit. Human feces my expensive, 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 performed and was apologetic. However the calmness and serenity on the face of the trainer was noteworthy. He nodded on the scholar gracefully.
The act of the scholar may have been thought of as contempt amidst elite gathering however the nice Guru had handled it in a witty approach. All of us had a lesson to hold house on the finish of the session.
Within the first story, the disciple mentioned one thing which obtained the applause of his trainer and colleagues. I had heard that story. Centuries later I grew to become the witness of an analogous 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. ‘All the things you consider on this creation is a drugs. The creation has a number of therapeutic gadgets and factors. Our imaginative and prescient must be higher’.
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||
That means – ‘Nothing within the universe exists (not even a small factor) which can’t be used as a drugs. A correct and exact data of each substance within the creation allows one (the doctor) to manage them as medicines in varied kinds and to derive a number of advantages (therapeutic results) from them’.
To sum up, Grasp Vagbhata tells ‘All the things on this universe is a drugs’.
Abstract
With this data and consciousness, once we go searching us, each part of the materialistic world appears to work like a drugs, assigned and designed to be part of the therapeutic system.
The universe is created from the 5 components of nature and each single factor has these components in various proportions. The human physique too is created from the exact same components of nature pierced with a life component – the atma. The meals substances and medicines, herbs and vegetation and the animal kingdom – all are made up of 5 components of nature. They compensate for the panchabhautika (5 components) imbalances within the physique and assist in the therapeutic course of, prevention of illnesses, development, restoration, rejuvenation and steadiness of well being. So, many of the medicines are panchabhautika in origin.
Vegetation, 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 many others), hairs, nails, metals, minerals, gems, horns, urine, oil, ghee, every thing can be utilized as a drugs.
Grasp Vagbhata says {that a} correct understanding of every and every thing surrounding us may be very a lot important in placing this stuff into varied types of utilization within the type of drugs / remedy and likewise to derive many sorts of helpful outcomes from utilizing them within the therapy course of. The advantages are within the type of aid 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 therapy and it’s the major 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 every thing within the universe is a drugs’.
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