The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c4.15

c4.15

It is an immense and difficult but necessary task. It will have been necessary even if there were no need of justifying or condemning the methods which are, rightly or wrongly, applied at present. In fact, the data of the Ayurvedic texts refer to real diseases, to dietetic measures effectively applied, to largely applied remedies. It constitutes a considerable mass of information relating to Pathology, to nutrition and to the effect of drugs and all this information should be gathered and verified by modern research.