was capsules now how do traditional medicine systems evolve

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Dear Dr. Sharma,

Your post has reminded me of a question I have had about Ayurveda and about

Chinese medicine also for some time now: how do these forms of medicine

evolve over the centuries? I am certain that all the respected vaidyas

throughout the years did not say that "ayurveda is a closed system,

therefore there can be no changes," no? If that were so, the materia medica

would not have expanded at all after the initial invention of the system and

the other treatments would not exist either. The whole system of Ayurveda

could not have been invented by one person, no matter how brilliant, or at

one time either. So what is the system for evolution of treatments and

diagnoses? Has anyone written on that subject? I am a folklorist, not a

medical person and the whole subject of Ayurveda is fascinating to me.

Besides, from my own experience, I know the cures work. For example, Mr.

Garry in Reno sends my Mahanarayan oil packaged in plastic, yet I am certain

this is not how the original vaidyas would have packaged it. Yet the lovely

oil works very well and I am just as satisfied with it as the first patient

to use it, I am sure.

Very curious,

Darla

 

On 2/2/07, drdevgun <drdevgun > wrote:

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> Perhaps it is our reluctance to adopt and adapt that has made us lag

> behind in the race and being labelled as "Alternative System of Medicine".

> In modern world and in order to make this the "Preferred system of

> Medicine", we have to undergo the process of change, adopting and adapting

> as well. We have already seen what happened by not doing so.

>

> So, if we think rationally, we will get over emotions and surely think

> about the convenience of dosage forms at least.

> Even Carak Samhita leaves a scope to further research saying that this is

> not the end of ayurvedic wisdom.