Review Article
An Analytical Review of Animals in Carakopaskara Commentary of Caraka Samhita
| Panja AK* | |
| PG Department of Basic Principles, National Institute of Ayurveda (Govt. of India), Jaipur, India | |
| Corresponding Author : | Panja AK PG Department of Basic Principles National Institute of Ayurveda (Govt. of India) Jaipur, India E-mail: asitpanjain@gmail.com |
| Received June 02, 2012; Accepted August 20, 2012; Published August 22, 2012 | |
| Citation: Panja AK (2012) An Analytical Review of Animals in Carakopaskara Commentary of Caraka Samhita. J Homeop Ayurv Med 1:111. doi: 10.4172/2167-1206.1000111 | |
| Copyright: © 2012 Panja AK. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. | |
Abstract
aspects 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
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.
