Ayurveda is a 5,000-year-old system of natural healing that has its origins in the Vedic culture of India. Although suppressed during years of foreign occupation, Ayurveda has been enjoying a major resurgence in both its native land and throughout the world. Tibetan medicine and Traditional Chinese Medicine both have their roots in Ayurveda. Early Greek medicine also embraced many concepts originally described in the classical Ayurvedic medical texts dating back several thousands of years.
Maharishi Shushruta is a legendry scholar of the Ancient medical science and founding father of surgery. 3500 Years ago Maharishi Shushruta together with his colleagues had conducted the variety of complex surgeries such as caesareans, artificial limbs, cataract, urinary stones, fractures, and most specially the plastic surgery. A famous book “Shalya Tantra” has been described by the Shushruta about all the surgical procedures. Shalya Tantra was later named as the “Sushruta Samhita” (have details about the ancient medical science of India, well known as the Ayurveda). Maharishi Shushruta is the author of “Sushruta Samhita” in Sanskrit language and had described all the amazing surgical procedures with the accuracy and curative efficacy. His great findings have become an essential component of the Indian culture.
