Medicina Tradicional y Naturopatía Clínica

Abstracto

An Analytical Review of Animals in Carakopaskara Commentary of Caraka Samhita

Panja AK

Zoologicalaspects are documented in a vast and complex way in ayurveda. The usages of animal products as food and medicine itself reveal the intense field work and ample research regarding the natural habitat, character, quality and the effect of animal and animal products conducted by the then scholars. From very gross product like

cow-dung

to finer one like pituitary gland are medicinally used. Human mental characters are also symbolified with animal characters. In various instances, the different activity is also evidenced by animal character. This study is dealt with the clinical relavancy of identification of different animals described in caraka samhita.