Martha Bhaskar Rao, Dr. Hemanth Kumar Kushwaha

By Martha Bhaskar Rao, Dr. Hemanth Kumar Kushwaha - Jul 15, 2012

Each age of mankind has its own unique way of understanding and relating with the world around it. Āyurveda belongs to an intuitive age of mankind that precedes the age of rational enlightenment as it also precedes the age of darkness and superstition. However, the two ages that followed it, like night and dawn, disintegrated much of this knowledge and whatever remained was further lost in semantics. It is now difficult to know exactly what each word used in that age stood for unless we enter into an inner sympathy with it. The article is an interesting attempt to bridge the gap between the two ages, the ancient wisdom and modern knowledge using a rare disease as its model.