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| <big>'''Vimana Sthana Chapter 8. Methods of conquering debate and disease '''</big> | | <big>'''Vimana Sthana Chapter 8. Methods of conquering debate and disease '''</big> |
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| <big>'''Abstract'''</big> | | <big>'''Abstract'''</big> |
− | | + | <p style="text-align:justify;">This comprehensive and detailed chapter deals with assessment criteria of standard quality treatise, the teacher and the disciple, the means for receiving the knowledge from the treatise, method of discussion and its types- friendly or hostile, result of discussion, worth considering or worth discarding. It describes examination of ten entities to understand the state of health of the patient before starting the treatment. For providing treatment, physician should consider the strength of patient, severity of disease, [[Prakriti]] (constitution), vikriti (nature of abnormalities), potency of drugs, season for purification therapy, and the status of the patients in context to use of drugs. Thus, this chapter gives a glimpse of how advanced the medical education in India was over two thousand years ago and how well the phenomenon of health was understood and managed. </br> |
− | <div style="text-align:justify;">This comprehensive and detailed chapter deals with assessment criteria of standard quality treatise, the teacher and the disciple, the means for receiving the knowledge from the treatise, method of discussion and its types- friendly or hostile, result of discussion, worth considering or worth discarding. It describes examination of ten entities to understand the state of health of the patient before starting the treatment. For providing treatment, physician should consider the strength of patient, severity of disease, [[Prakriti]] (constitution), vikriti (nature of abnormalities), potency of drugs, season for purification therapy, and the status of the patients in context to use of drugs. Thus, this chapter gives a glimpse of how advanced the medical education in India was over two thousand years ago and how well the phenomenon of health was understood and managed. </div> | |
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| '''Keywords''': Preceptor, student, teaching methodology, learning methods, discussion techniques, examination techniques of patient, [[Prakriti]], ''sara'', purification therapies, pharmacovigilance. | | '''Keywords''': Preceptor, student, teaching methodology, learning methods, discussion techniques, examination techniques of patient, [[Prakriti]], ''sara'', purification therapies, pharmacovigilance. |
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