Brainberg

Integrity of Medicine: A Need Medicine was conceived in sympathy and born out of necessity. Medicine shared a cradle with religion in its development at the beginning. Medical men strive hard to restore the best of the therapeutic methods in upbringing of medicine through ages. World’s most ancient systems of safeguarding health the Indian, the Greek, the Chinese, the Egyptian are some to quote, have had a spiritual and religious connect. To elaborate it further, as seen in Ayurveda, an Indian contribution to Medicine the emphasis on Atman or soul is worth mentioning. They say Atman plays a pivotal role in binding the five elements of nature, which constitute our body, and impart Life into it. The expression of life whether in health or in disease is through this Atman. Further, we can see out of short research, that Aesculapius was termed as a ‘demi-god’ of Greek medicine and his two daughters Hygeia and Panacea were revered as goddesses of Hygiene and Preventive medicine respectively. The mystical thing is the intrinsic relation of Medicine and Philosophy- here it would be called Theosophy. Theosophy had always found its roots mingled with any development of medicine on the globe. There was an influential growth of modern medicine in the late eighteen century and couple of centuries there after. What we as a modern man need is to ‘awaken’ our intelligence, in order to bring about Medicine-Theosophy integrity, re-capture the laws of healing from nature and blend them into delicate, simple and a beautiful Science – Yes the Science of Holistic Healing.