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Doctor's Day: Introduction of 6 best doctors of ancient India including Dhanvantari, Charak and Chyawan, names of 30 - The News Reader 365
Doctor's Day: Introduction of 6 best doctors of ancient India including Dhanvantari, Charak and Chyawan, names of 30 Rishi Muni
National Doctor's Day is celebrated every year on 1st July. Doctor is known by names like Chikitsak, Vaidya etc. in Hindi. India has had a medical tradition since ancient times. Ayurveda is the earliest medical branch known to mankind. The first book of the world, Rigveda, finds mention of Ayurveda. Ayurveda is mentioned the most in the Atharvaveda. Let's know the names of 30 best doctors of ancient India, out of which 6 special doctors are introduced.
Names of Ayurveda doctors:
1. Ashwini Kumar
2. Dhanwantari
3. Charak
4. Chyawan
5. Sushruta
6. Sage Atri
7. Rishi Bharadwaj
8. Divodas (Kashiraj)
9. Nakula-Sahdev (Pandava's son)
10. Arki
11. Parent
12. Mercury
13. Jawal
14. Jajali
15. Pal
16. Karath
17. Agastya
18. Atharva
19. Six Disciples of Sage Atri
20. Agnivesh
21. Sheep
22. Jatukaran
23. Parashar
24. Sirpani
25. Harit
26. Jeevak
27. Bagbhatt
28. Nagarjuna
29. Patanjali
30. Daksh Prajapati
31. Varun Dev
Birth giver of Ayurveda:
1. Ashwini Kumar: These two Kumars are mentioned in Rigveda. He is called Adi Acharya of Ayurveda. In some places his name is also there in the list of 33 male deities. He is also called Auras son of Surya. He was originally a doctor. There are two in total. The name of one is 'Nasatya' and the name of the other is 'Dstra'. They are considered to be the doctors of the deities and the healers of diseases. It is notable that from the secret mantra given by Kunti to Madri, Madri invoked these two Ashwini Kumars only. Among the five Pandavas, Nakula and Sahadeva are the sons of these two.
He is said to be the husband of the virgins, youth to the old, eyes to the blind. Pleased with the fast of Sukanya, the daughter of King Sharyati, both the Kumaras rejuvenated Maharishi Chyawan in his old age and gave him everlasting youth. It was he who rejoined the head of Dadhichi Rishi. It is said that in order to learn Madhu-Vidya from Dadhichi, he cut off his head and put a horse's head on his torso and then learned Madhu-Vidya from him.
2. Dhanvantari: It is said that Lord Dhanvantari originated from the churning of the ocean. He came out of the ocean with the pot of nectar for which there was a fight between the Devas and the Asuras. The story of Samudra Manthan is found in Shrimad Bhagwat Purana, Mahabharata, Vishnu Purana, Agni Purana etc. After this, in the dynasty of Kashi, a king named Dhanva pleased Ajj Dev by worshiping him and he was blessed with a son named Dhanvantari. It is mentioned in Brahma Purana and Vishnu Purana. This was the second birth of Dhanvantari born from the churning of the sea. Dhanva was the son of Kash, the founder of Kashi city.
It is said that Dhanvantari took place around 7000 BC. He was the son of King Maharaj Dhanva of Kashi. He had made important discoveries on surgery. His great-grandson Divodas modified them and preached to his disciples like Sushruta. Dashragya's war took place during the time of Divodas. The biggest scientific experiment in Dhanvantari's life is that of nectar. The golden urn of nectar is associated with his life. Dhanvantari had told the experiment of making nectar in the golden vessel itself.
He said that for the destruction of old age and death, the gods like Brahma had invented the nectar named Soma. According to Dhanvantari etc. Ayurvedacharyas, there are 100 types of death. There is only one premature death among them, Ayurveda diagnosis and therapy are the efforts to stop the remaining untimely death. Dhanvantari has told each and every measurement of the minimum age. Dhanvantari Vaidya is considered the father of Ayurveda. He studied the plants around the world and revealed their good and bad effects. Out of thousands of texts of Dhanvantari, now only Dhanvantari Samhita is found, which is the original text of Ayurveda. Adi Acharya of Ayurveda Sushrut Muni had received the teachings of this scripture from Dhanvantriji. Later Charak etc. took this tradition forward. There have been many other Ayurvedacharyas by the name of Dhanvantari. Ayu's son's name was Dhanvantari. Galav Rishi had blessed a courtesan with Putravatibhava, who gave birth to a boy named Dhanvantari.
3. Chyawan: After Ashwin Kumar, Dhanvantari comes the number of Chyawan Rishi. It is said that Chyavan Rishi himself became young again from old age after making a medicine called 'Chyawanprash' from herbs. Sage Chyavan was the son of the great sage Bhrigu. His mother's name was Puloma. His fame is in the form of Ayurvedacharya and Jyotishacharya. The name of the book is Chyavanasmriti and Jivadan Tantra. Chyavana was married by Munivar to Sukanya, the daughter of King Sharyati of Bhadonch (Gulf of Khambhat) in Gujarat. With the marriage of Bhargava Chyavana and Sukanya, the Bhargavas made their debut in the south of the Himalayas. Chyavana Rishi became the king of the Gulf of Khambhat and this region came to be known as Bhrigukachchha-Bhrigu Kshetra.
4. Charak: Acharya of Ayurveda Maharishi Charak is counted among the original promoters of Indian medicine science. Sage Charak wrote 'Charak Samhita', an important text of Ayurveda between 300-200 BC. He is also known as a skin doctor. Acharya Charak did serious research in the subject of anatomy, pregnancy, blood circulation, medicine etc. and told invaluable knowledge about diagnosis and medicine of diseases like diabetes, tuberculosis, heart disorders etc.
Charaka and Sushruta wrote treatises on Ayurveda in 3 volumes after getting knowledge from Atharvaveda. those He explained the way to diagnose and prevent all the diseases of the world, as well as he described in his book such a lifestyle in which there is no disease and grief. In the eighth century, the Charaka Samhita was translated into Arabic and this scripture reached the western countries. Unani medicine was developed based on the knowledge of Charak and Chyawan Rishi.
5. Sushruta: Sushruta was born in 600 BC. Sushruta started plastic surgery in India. Sushruta Samhita mentions 650 types of medicines, 42 types of surgeries and 300 types of operations. It is also stated in the old historical documents that 121 types of tools including knives, needles, tongs etc. were used in this treatise to perform surgeries and operations. Earlier information about Indian medical science was obtained from books like Vedas and Charaka Samhita. It is said that this information was recorded in these books from 3000 to 1000 BC.
Sushruta, along with the health scientists of his time, propounded the principles of many complex surgeries like childbirth, cataract, artificial limbs, treatment of stones and plastic surgery. Modern science has started doing surgery only 400 years ago, but Sushruta had done this work at 2600 years ago. Sushruta had his own made equipment which he used to boil.
6. Bagbhat: Vagbhat's Ashtangasangraha is still the standard text of Indian medical science (Ayurveda). Vagbhata was born in the Indus country. He was a disciple of Avalokiteshvara. His father's name was Siddagupta and grandfather's name was Vagbhat. In 675 and 685 AD when Baghbhatta happened before the arrival of Hiuen Tsang. Vagbhata's time is around 5th century. He had revived the Ayurveda system of medicine.