Health and Healing: Perspectives from ancient India
Report by: Gaurika Kalsi
The Empower People Organization has organized webinar series to support, educate, and help people towards their overall empowerment.
The following report is based on one of those webinars.
The topic of the panel discussion was “Health and Healing: Perspectives from ancient India”
It was conducted on 4th August 2020 at 08:00pm.
Panellists for the session were:
Diwakar Kr. Singh (Assistant Professor, Department of History, CM college LMNU darbhanga)
Matiur Rahman Khan (Assistant Professor, Department of History, PGDAV college(Eve), University of Delhi)
Some points by Mr. Diwakar Kr. Singh:
• Global history of medicine
• European origins
• Paleopathology
• South African origins
• Anatomy
• Story of Kampilye
• Food variations
• Tree leaves
• Charak, Susrutr,etc
• Ayur + Veda
• Buddhism
• Religions and regions
Some points by Mr. Matiur Rahman Khan:
• People’s perception
• Illness & Experiences
• Herbal plants
• Tribal works
• Gracia de Orta
• Christoval Acosta
• Adrian Van Rheed
• Arogya Vihara
• Healing process
• Notation of health
• Ayurved
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