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<big>'''Vimana Sthana Chapter 8. Methods of conquering debate and disease '''</big>
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<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.
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|title = Rogabhishagjitiya Vimana
 
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==[[Vimana Sthana]] Chapter 8, Rogabhishagjitiya Vimana adhyaya (Chapter on the Methods of conquering debate and disease)==
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[[Rogabhishagjitiya Vimana]], the eighth chapter of [[Vimana Sthana]], is about examination of the 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 deals with 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'', ''vikriti'', 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.
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'''Keywords''': Preceptor, student, teaching methodology, learning methods, discussion techniques, examination techniques of patient, ''prakriti'', ''sara'', purification therapies, pharmacovigilance.
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=== Introduction ===
 
=== Introduction ===