By Dr.Prasanth.K.P.
The biggest failure as far as Ayurvedic academia is
concerned would be imitating the modern system right from the word go, the
imitation has been pretty illogical one, done without any pragmatic approach.
For anatomy you academics created a rachana sareera, and for physiology you
created a kriya sareera, I doubt wether acharya says so, and in fact for all ye
common masses,, there is no such thing as anatomy and physiology in ayurveda,
its not a separatist approach, which I have been mentioning from the blog one, it’s
a holistic one . Our very own Charaka, Susrutha and Vagbhata dedicates a
section called Sareera Sthana, in which he describes about Obstetrics ,
Pregnanacy, Vital points, About the concept of Agni or digestive fire, About
the inherent nature or prakruthi etc..Its beyond the perspective of anatomy and
physiology. There is nothing such as a swasthavrittha mentioned in ayurvedics
and there is no need for one, since allopaths study the preventive and social
medicine, we for name sake study swasthavritha as two papers, which includes
again soothrasthaana ( basics again ) in the second year also and a bit ( a
tiny bit ) of yoga, which is injustice realising the importance of yoga, since
the effect of pranayama on the body and breath controls is very vast as an
ocean, its ridiculous, its bad. More importance should be given to Dravya Guna
Vijnana, Yoga and Sutrasthaana must include both Soothra and Sareera. Anatomy
and Physiology must be dealt with separate. That’s gonna be a hell of a challenge
for the students, provided anatomy poses a nightmare for everyone alike !There
is only one paper for Charaka, or is it needed ? Isn’t it a part of Kaya chikitsa
? Then why there was not a paper for Susrutha Samhita, its illogical ! Padartha
vijnana and Sanskrit do good only provided all literatures are in Sanskrit and
Sankhya philosophy forms the basement of all Ayurvedic thoughts. But that too
must carefully be redacted, leaving out all those stories and things and
Vaidyakeeya subhashita sahitya ! It does no good really ! Students may be
introduced on a high note I say to the vedic philosophies and thoughts about
sareera and atman, about the brahman etc which would be thought provoking and
open their channels in the thought towards an Ayuvedic stream, an entirely
Ayurvedic one. You cannot think of Ayurveda sans the vedas ! (any doubts on
that ?) Second year is an empty one regarding an ayurvedic student , where the
allopathic one scores highly , for the rest of his career, that’s what makes
the real difference, the pathology and bio chemistry of the human body ! No
Ayurvedic knowledge can equal its quanta of research and development. With
quarter knowledge of human anatomy and physiology ayurvedic sub-consciously
enters into an empty pool, then to go to the vast and wide ocean of chikitsa or
treatment, he learns charaka, susrutha, astanga hrudaya ( that’s according to
syllabus, while most of ‘em are satisfied with our popular A.H ) then all “relevant”
points of commonly used MBBS texts, may be a 10 % just for the sake of passing
out . How cann you treat a disease without knowing its pathology ? What do you
know about pathology ? Ayurveda specifies a samprapti for every disease that is
equal to pathology, but how much in use is that system ? How many of us know
about nadi’s ? Well there’s plenty of topics to ponder and to debate !
