Charak Samhita
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Context:
- The National Medical Commission has made a suggestion that the Hippocratic oath taken by doctors during their graduation ceremony should be replaced by a Charak Shapath.
About Charak:
- Charaka was one of the principal contributors to Ayurveda, a system of medicine and lifestyle developed in Ancient India. Charaka lived between A.D. 150-200 and 100 B.C
- He is known as an editor of the medical treatise entitled Charaka Samhita, one of the foundational texts of classical Indian medicine and Ayurveda, included under Brhat-Trayi.
Charak Samhita:
- Agnivesa, under the guidance of the ancient physician Atreya, composed an encyclopedic medical compendium in the eighth century BCE, the Agnivesha Samhitā. The work received little attention.
- The Agnivesha Samhitā was revised by Charaka and renamed the Charaka Samhitā.
- The Charaka Samhitā was later supplemented with an extra seventeen chapters added by the author Dṛḍhabala.
- The Charaka Samhita is one of the two foundational text of Ayurveda, the other being the Sushruta Samhita.
- For two millennia it remained a standard work on the subject and was translated into many foreign languages, including Arabic and Latin.
Chapters:
- General principles
- Pathology
- Anatomy
- Sensory organ based prognosis
- Therapeutics
- Pharmaceutics and toxicology
- Success in treatment
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