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Vikas Marutrao Abnave
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DOI: 10.4172/2573-4555-C1-002
Ancient indian plants and healing
T
he beginning of relationship between humans and plants can be traced back to the
prehistoric times. The Indus Valley people used to live in villages, cities and towns,
wore clothes, cultivated crops including wheat, barley, millet, dates, vegetables, melon and
other fruits and cotton; worshipped trees, glazed their pottery with the juice of plants and
painted them with a large number of plant designs. They also knew the commercial value
of plants and plant products. There are sufficient indications to show that Agriculture,
Medicine, Horticulture, developed to a great extent during the Vedic Period. In the Vedic
literature we find a large number of terms used in the description of plants and plant parts,
both external features and internal structures; a definite attempt at classification of plants
and evidence that use of manure and rotation of crops were practiced for the improvement
of fertility of soil and nourishment of plants. Even Rgveda mentions that Vedic Indians
had some knowledge about the food manufacture, the action of light on the process and
storage of energy in the body of plants. In the post-Vedic Indian literature there is enough
evidence to show that botany developed as an independent science on which was based
the science of medicine (as embodied in the Charaka and Susruta Samhitas), Agriculture
(as embodied in the Krsi-Parasara) and Arbori-Horticulture (as illustrated in the Upavana-
vinoda as a branch of Botany). This science was known as the Vriksayurveda, also
compiled by Parasara.
Biography
Vikas M. Abnave has completed his MBBS from B.J Medical College, Pune, MD in Nature Therapy, Yoga,
Acupressure, Acupuncture, Magneto Therapy and Alternative Medicine from different Institutes. He is currently
working as a Vice President of National Institute of Yoga, Vice Principal of C.S medical College. Founder
of Pune Medical Transcription Institute. As well as he is working as Treaserer, Joint Secretary, Consultant,
Member, Centre Incharge of various reputed Instutions. Free blood group camps was conducted by him in
which 160000 persons were benefited. He has enthusiastically delivered more than 1200 speeches on family
planning and more than 200 speeches on AIDS in N.S.S camps. He has represented India in 2006 for World
Social Forum in Pakistan, Karachi.
dr.vikasabnave@gmail.comVikas Marutrao Abnave
Indian Board of Health Education &
Research, India