Ancient method of treatment

The belief of ancient people is our body has basically three parts Spirit (air), Phlegm and Bile. The Physicians used all five senses. Hearing was used to distinguish the nature of breathing, alternative in voice & the grinding sound produced by the rubbing together of broken end of bones. Personal hygiene is important for the treatment. Two meals a day were prescribed with indication of the nature of the diet,the amount of water to be drunk before & after the meal. Bathing, Care of the skin, Cleaning of teeth with twigs from neem trees, massaging the body with oil & use of eye washes were carefully prescribed.



3000 BC                                - the health is physically, mentally, socially & spiritually fit.

2000 BC                                - take care about health promotion & health education by the way of                                                                
                                                 Dinacharya.

1000 BC                                - Health & Curative treatment are the two aims of medical science.

  800 BC                                - Medical knowledge spread through Vedas by Bhela called                                                                                                  
                                                 Bhela Samhitha.
 
  700 BC                                - a system of medical knowledge by Agnivesa, follower of
                                                 Atreya called Agnivesa samhita become the basis of later Charaka.

   600 BC                               - a work by Kasyapa, mainly dealing with Pediatrics.

   500 BC                               - Chiravastu, a book written by unknown author.
 
    272 BC - 236 BC               - King Asoka, a convert to Buddhism, built number of hospitals.

    237 BC - 201 BC               - St Buddha institute appointed Doctor's for every 10 villages.
 
    200 BC - 100 BC               - Patanjali blow up the Yoga system of philosophy & physical discipline
                                                  for men.

    100 BC                               - Charaka Samhitha, deals with an almost all branches of medicine,
                                                  anatomy, physiology, ectiology, prognosis, pathology, treatment
                                                  procedure & materia media for more than 600 drugs.

    200 AD - 300 AD              - Sushrutha Samhitha mainly emphasis on surgery is a great work described
                                                 more than 300 operations, 43 surgical processes & 121 different types of
                                                 instruments have been revised by Nagarjuna.

    500 AD - 600 AD              - AD Vagbhata wrote Astanga Hridaya.

    600 AD - 800 AD              - Sodhala (700 AD) two works, Gandanigraha a medical work, & Sodhala
                                                 a medical dictionary.

    800 AD - 1300 AD            - many works were written in India. Arkaprakasha a book on tincture
                                                 extraction, Sarangadhara Samhita, Chikitsa Sangraha & Yoga Rathnakara
                                                 are the better known among them.

  1300 AD - 1600 AD            - Bhava Prakasha by Bhavamisra is the most famous Indian work during
                                                 this period.

   1600 AD                             - East India Company established Western Medical & Surgery in India.