India is considered a country with a long medicinal history. Texts and inscriptions can be founded stating how Indians have dealt with the disease, like fever, cough, skin disease, etc, with their medicines which were mainly made of herbs and minerals.
The medicines were extremely powerful today also, but there are many medicinal systems which include Ayurveda and Siddha. Both of them are natural and nature-based medicines derived from minerals, herbs, metals, etc.
However, some practitioners say there is a North Indian school of Siddha medicine too that developed in the Himalayas. Siddha was popular in ancient India and is believed to be the oldest medicinal system in the world.
The Siddha system is based on the premise that only a healthy body can help develop a healthy soul so ancient practitioners regulated their life with intense yogic exercises, fasting , meditation and achieved super powers including the miracle to cure disease. Ayurveda , on the other hand, is related to the Vedic period in India and its traditional medicinal secrets were found in the Sushruta Samhita and Charaka Samhita.
Both Siddha and Ayurveda recognize that disease is caused by the imbalance of the three humors. But Siddha sees the predominance of humors as vatham, pitham and kapam in childhood, adulthood and old age respectively while Ayurveda views the dominance of kapam in childhood, vatham in old age and pitham in adulthood!. Ayurveda focuses on five elements of earth, water, fire, air and ether which affect the blood, chyle, flesh, fast, bone marrow and semen.
Siddha doctors are also accused of stealing or plagiarising various Ayurvedic concepts without giving due rights. The best example is the plagiarisation of kshara Sutra as Karanool.
There should also be a data tool to stop the plagiarism of Ayurveda concepts into Siddha which is the latest undertaking of certain latter doctors and claim it as their own which is not acceptable. The Tamil texts that mention Ayurveda should be rightfully restored to Tamil Ayurveda. Thus to conclude the same I strongly believe that Tamil Ayurveda is the authentic medical system of Tamil Nadu since ages and Rishi Agastya and others were the propounders of the same.
My question still remains how can one take up the Ayurvedic system and divide into linguistic lines? I am based in India and love blogging and vlogging on community issues. Akshay G Paraskar. Gaargi Tomar. Abinaya Suresh.
Maharshi Ghosh. Siddha has been mainly popular in Tamil Nadu and Kerala in comparison to nationwide popularity of Ayurveda. Though from various aspects both seem to be different systems but owing to their same origin they have sample number of similarities.
Scientific and rational analysis of similarities and dissimilarities between the two systems is the main focus of this review. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.
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