Medical System
Traditionally, Ayurveda has eight specialist branches
that work jointly in an overall approach that is at once curative, palliative,
preventive and educational:
1. Internal medicine (also including the pancha karma
deep elimination procedures and pharmacology)
2. Pediatrics, gynecology and obstetrics
3. ENT and facial surgery
4. Surgery
5. Toxicology
6. Regeneration of the body and immunity reinforcement
7. Fertility and procreation
8. Treatment of conditions of supernatural origin
Over the centuries, Ayurveda has developed on a basis
of empirical as well as factual medicine (evidence-based medicine or EBM) — of
which witness such data-bases as DHARA
and the AYUSH RESEARCH PORTAL
The traditional professional hierarchy of Ayurveda
covers both the strictly medical domain (ayurvedic doctors)
and the paramedical (therapists, dieticians, masseurs and ayurvedic
nurses). The profession of pharmacist in ayurvedic medicine is
evolving as a specific specialisation parallel with the ayurvedic
pharmaceutical industry. english