Sushruta

Recorded efforts to deal with damage to skin tissue date to the second century b.c.e., when an Indian surgeon hy the name of Sushruta (fl. sixth century b.c.e.) developed a method of grafting skin taken from one part of a patient s body to replace a lost nose. Amputation of noses was a common procedure at the time, partly because of... 

Grafts like those developed hy Sushruta and Tagliacozzi are called autografts. Autografts are the most desirable form of grafting. Because it does not involve the introduction of tissue from a different person or a different species, the likelihood that a patient s hody will reject an autograft is nearly zero. 

AYURVEDA [Ashtanga Hrudaya of Vagbhata, Charaka, Sushruta (ca. 2500 BC)]... 

Two of the best developed and most widely used traditional medicinal systems, which are both well documented and rich in concept and practice, are the various Indian and Chinese systems of medicines. Among traditional Indian systems of medicine, the ayurvedic system has been the most popular and best known in the West. Ayurveda literally means knowledge or science of life. The system is based primarily on three classic texts known as samhitas, which were written by Sushruta, Charaka, and Vaghata in the period between 100 B.c. and 100 a.d. Ayurvedic physiology also views bodily functions in terms of three... 

Chakravorty R. The duties and training of physicians in ancient India as described in the Sushruta Samhita. Surg Gynecol Obstet 1965 120 1067-70. 

Ayurveda was described centuries before this. Hence, it is only natural that Ayurveda does not mention the terms immunostimulants or immunomodula-tors . The original Ayurvedic texts, like Charaka and Sushruta Samhita [3, 4], are written in Sanskrit, the classical language of ancient India. Thus, translation and interpretation of terms which may mean immunostimulant or immunomodula-tor have been the major source of research material for many scientists. 

Table 1 lists some of the plants described in Charaka Samhita and Sushruta Samhita having these properties. 

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