Sarve Bavanthu Sukhinah

This article about the medicine used by Tamilnadu vaidyas to treat snakebite  around 18th century. Though brought to light by none other than the Britishers, they themselves shunned its use because of prejudice. Even the then Physicians and Surgeons found them to be effective and beneficial in majority of the cases, they  didnot recommend them for general use because of its arsenic content. Irony is that, even now, we continue to use various allopathic medicines having known their side effects, drug interactions and toxic effects. Just because it came from the slave nation and because it contained arsenic they have blacklisted excellent emergency medicines of India and paved way for the downgrowth of Indian systems of Medicine. This is the abstract of an article ' The Vaidya's Cure ' in Madras Miscellany, The Hindu dated 17th September 2012, an weekly column written by S. Muthiah. In Tamilnadu, Vaidyas used to treat snakebite poisoning using tablets called Tanjore pil

Dhanwantari Temples in Tamilnadu and Kerala In Tamil Nadu Coimbatore Dhanwantari Temple Dhanwantari Temple, Walajapet Nelluvaya Dhanwantari Temple Maruthhorvattom Dhanwantari Temple Thottuva Dhanwantari Temple Anakkal Dhanwantari Temple Pyakkara Dhanwantari Temple S.No. Place Temple Details 1 Srirangam, Trichy Ranganathan Temple In the courtyard there is a Dhanwantari shrine 2 Vaitheeswaran Koil, Near Chidambaram Vaitheeswaran Temple In the praharam there is a Dhanwantari shrine 3 Kanchipuram Varadaraja Perumal Temple In the praharam there is a Dhanwantari deity 4 Arya Vaidya Chikitsalayam & Research Institute, Coimbatore Sri Dhanwantari Temple 5 Arogya kshetram, Kilpudpet, Walajapet, Vellore Dhanwantari Temple In Kerala S.No. Place Temple Details 1 Nelluvaya ,Thrissur Sree Dhanwanthari Temple The biggest, beautiful and g

Ancient Ayurvedic Hospital at Thirumukkudal, near Kanchipuram A tiny village in kancheepuram district, situated 75km from Chennai. The place derives the name due to the meeting of three rivers –Palar,Vegavati and Cheyyar. According to the epigraphs in this shrine, Tirumukkudal was situated in the ancient territorial sub-division called Madhurantaka-Chaturvedimangalam which was a part of Kalatur-kottam, a district of Jayamkonda-chola-mandalam. Luckily, this shrine as well as the inscriptions here have been preserved well. The temple is a protected monument under the care of the Archaeological Survey of India.   The walls of the main sanctum as well as those of the second prakara are studded with numerous epigraphs in the ancient Tamil script, the oldest of which is datable to the reign of the Pallava ruler, Nripatungavarman of the 9th century A.D. There are also many Chola inscriptions of the reign of Rajaraja-I, Rajendra-I, Vira-Rajendra and Kulottunga-I. Among these records, the m

Study of Astanga Hridayam and Charaka Samhita in Religious Centres of Ancient Tamilnadu There is an inscriptional reference to the teaching of medical sciences in a Mutt in South India. The mutt was attached to the temple of Tiruvadu-turaiyudaiyar at Tiruvaduturai is referred to in a Chola inscription dated 1120AD.  The mutt made provisions for the study of medical sciences like Ashtanga Hridayam and Charaka Samhita and also of vyakarana and rupavatara. The students studying in the mutt were fed in the dharma chatra attached to the temple. Ref: S. Gurumurthy. Medical sciences and dispensaries in ancient south india as gleaned from epigraphy. Indian J Hist Sci. 1970 May;5:76-9. www.new.dli.ernet.in/rawdataupload/upload/...1/20005b64_76.pdf

School of Indian Medicine In 1925, to keep the Indian systems of Medicines alive, a college by name School of Indian Medicine was started in Chennai. The degree conferred at that time was L.I.M. Later, according to the recommendations of Usman, Chopra and Pundit committees, the then Government changed the school into College of Indian Medicine. This happened in the year 1947 and it conferred the degree G.C.I.M. In 1948, the college was renamed as College of Indigenous Medicine and taught Indian medical systems like Ayurveda, Siddha , Unani along with Allopathy. Once again in 1953 the college was renamed as College of Integrated Medicine and offered four and half years course with one year internship. In 1960, College of Integrated Medicine was closed down. In 1965, a women's medical college was started in the same premises and was called Government Kilpauk Medical College. Later it was converted into co-ed medical college. Thus, a school of Indian medicine was eventually c

सर्वे भवन्तु सुखिनः सर्वे   स न्तु निरामयाः । सर्वे भद्राणि पश्यन्तु मा कश्चिद्दुःखभाग्भवेत् । ॐ शान्तिः शान्तिः शान्तिः ॥