AYURVEDA

Ayurveda is perhaps the first codified and systematic exposition of medical knowledge on the basis of rational principles. A traditional system of medicine was in vogue in India about thousand years before the common era predating Hippocratic medicine by several centuries.

The earliest Ayurvedic texts give us the reference to the investigation and observation over authority innovation, refinement and discovery of new drugs. The scope of Ayurveda is vast and the horizon of medical knowledge have to keep expanding through discoveries and innovations.

In the course of time Ayurvedic practice specialised into 8 branches and came to be known as Ashtanga. Ayurveda comprises of
1.General medicine 
2.Surgery
3.Pediatrics 
4.Psychiatry 
5.ENT
6.Toxicology
7.Geriatrics and 
8.Reproductive medicine.

As the years passed Ayurvedic practices where specialized into the areas of
1.Ophthalmology
2. Dentistry
3.Bone setting 
4.Chemical medicine and 
5.Obstetrics.