Charak samhita - a critical review

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Charak Samhita”, which is a collection of various basic principles, healthy advises & directions, Teaching & Research methodology, anatomy & physiology of body, pharmacological actions of various drugs, description of Preventive, Promotive & Curative aspects of various diseases along with Panchakarma chikitsa etc. For these great contributions, he has been known as “Father of Medicine” for ever. He was the only one great sage who has told about the two objectives of Ayurveda i.e. 1) To maintain & promote the positive health of healthy individuals 2) To cure the disease of diseased ones. Here the Acharya Punarvasu Atreya was the advisor & Acharya Agnivesha was the main author of this Charak Samhita, whereas Acharya Charak was the actual redactor & Acharya Dridabala was the completer of this Samhita.