Medicine & Surgery
Internal medicine and metabolism framework
c. 2nd c. BCE - 2nd c. CECharaka (attrib.)Charaka SamhitaPan-Indian / unspecified
200 BCE
A comprehensive system of diagnosis, digestion/metabolism (agni), diet, and physician ethics.
- Dated
- 200 BCE–200 CE
- As scholars put it
- c. 2nd c. BCE - 2nd c. CE
- Originator
- Charaka (attrib.)
- Source text
- Charaka Samhita
- Region
- Pan-Indian / unspecified
- Discipline
- Medicine & Surgery
- Evidence
- Documented
- Confidence
- High
- Verification
- Verified-web
Meanwhile in the West
Systematic internal medicine developed separately in the West.
Fair to say
A historical medical system; specific therapeutic claims are outside the scope of this entry.
Path to modern innovation
A cornerstone text of Ayurveda still studied today.
Transmission
Influenced Islamic and later medieval medicine.
Primary sources
- 4Charaka Samhita Hindi Volume 1Unreviewed
- 5Charaka Samhita Text With English Tanslation P. V. SharmaUnreviewed
References
- 1Charaka Samhita
- 2Wujastyk
Further reading
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