ADVANCEMENT IN THEADVANCEMENT IN THE FIELD OF MEDICINE FIELD OF MEDICINE

CONTENTS

• INTRODUCTION TO MEDICINES• HISTORY OF MEDICINES • DIFFERENT BRANCHES• FACTORS AFFECTING DISEASE• NATURE THE BEST DOCTOR

MEDICINES• Medicine has existed for thousands of Medicine has existed for thousands of

years, It was an art (an area of skill and years, It was an art (an area of skill and knowledge) frequently having knowledge) frequently having connections to the religious and connections to the religious and philosophical beliefs of local culture. philosophical beliefs of local culture. Medicine encompasses a variety of health Medicine encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness.treatment of illness.

Ancient world• Prehistoric medicine incorporated plants (herbalism),

animal parts, and minerals were used as magical substances by priests, shamans, or medicine men. Well-known spiritual systems include

1. Animism (the notion of inanimate objects having spirits),

2. Spiritualism (an appeal to gods or communion with ancestor spirits);

3. Shamanism (the vesting of an individual with mystic powers); and

4. Divination (magically obtaining the truth).

• Persian polymath, Avicenna, Imhotep and Hippocrates, has also been called the "father of medicine

Statuette of ancient Statuette of ancient Egyptian physician Egyptian physician Imhotep, Imhotep,

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One of the book written One of the book written on medicine by imhotepon medicine by imhotep

Siena's Santa Maria della Siena's Santa Maria della Scala Hospital, one of Scala Hospital, one of Europe's oldest hospitalsEurope's oldest hospitals

Middle Ages

• Islamic physicians engaged in some significant

medical research. Notable Islamic medical

pioneers wrote -: • The Canon of Medicine, considered one of the most

famous books in the history of medicine.

• Abulcasis

• Avenzoar• Ibn al-Nafis• Averroes

• Bioengineering The use of engineering for medical purposes,

for example the use of artificial body parts, organs etc to replace damaged ones

• cardiology The area of medicine that deals with the heart and

the diseases that affect it

• dentistry

The study of people’s teeth and how to treat problems of the teeth and mouth

DIFFERENT BRANCHES OF DIFFERENT BRANCHES OF MEDICINESMEDICINES

• EpidemiologyThe scientific study of infectious

diseases and their causes

• Genetics The study of how the individual features

and behaviors of living things are passed on through their genes

• HaematologyThe scientific study of blood

• NeurologyThe study of your nervous system

and the diseases that affect it.

Factors Affecting Diseases• A number of environmental

factors influence the spread of communicable diseases that are prone to cause epidemics. The most important of these are:

1. water supply2. sanitation facilities3. food4. climate.

Direct contact

• Person to person• This can occur when an individual with the bacterium or virus

touches, kisses, or coughs or sneezes on someone who isn't infected .

• Animal to person • Being bitten or scratched by an infected animal — even a pet

— can make you sick and, in extreme circumstances, can be fatal

Indirect contactIndirect contact

• Insect bites

Some germs rely on insect carriers — such as Some germs rely on insect carriers — such as mosquitoes, fleas, lice or ticks — to move from mosquitoes, fleas, lice or ticks — to move from host to host. These carriers are known as vectorshost to host. These carriers are known as vectors

• Risk factorsRisk factors

1.1. You're taking steroids or other medications that You're taking steroids or other medications that suppress your immune system suppress your immune system

2.2. You have certain types of cancer or other You have certain types of cancer or other disordersdisorders

Injecting steroid

NATURE: THE BEST DOCTOR

• Nature has provided us with all

colored and all nutrition full

natural foods to eat and apply.

Whether it is fruits, herbs,

vegetables, leaves, honey, spices,

flowers, Seeds , stems, roots,

trunks, branches, bushes, plants,

soil, Stones ,water

Some Special Fruits

• Fruits like pomegranate, work best to improve the blood picture and hemoglobin. Juice of Carrot and Beetroot can turn tables to vitality and immunity if consumed in appropriate proportion.

• Amla Amla After 4th year Fruit Vitamin - C, Cough , Diabetes, cold, Laxative, hyper acidity.

• Ashok Ashok 10 years onward Bark FlowerMenstrual Pain,

uterine, disorder, Diabetes.• AswagandhaAswagandha

1 year Root, Leafs Restorative Tonic, stress, nerves disorder, aphrodisiacs.

• Bael / BilvaBael / Bilva After 4-5 year Fruit, Bark Diarrhoea,

Dysentery, Constipation .

Some Medicinal PlantsSome Medicinal Plants

PRESENTED BY

1.1. ARJUN RASTOGIARJUN RASTOGI