Vol. 4 No. S-6 (2022): Volume 4, Issue S-6, Year 2022
Articles

Clinical Properties in Sangam Literature

Saravanan M
Department of Tamil, Presidency College (Autonomous), Chennai-600005, Tamil Nadu, India

Published 2022-07-16

Keywords

  • Naturopathy,
  • Surgery,
  • Depression,
  • Disease Pharmacist

How to Cite

M, S. (2022). Clinical Properties in Sangam Literature. International Research Journal of Tamil, 4(S-6), 125-131. https://doi.org/10.34256/irjt22s617

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Abstract

The people of the Sangam period lived a high life in harmony with nature. Sangam literature and other literature conveyed to the world that they excelled in various fields like geology, astronomy, medicine, etc. Living in harmony with nature in all stages of their lives, the Tamils used the types of plants like trees, plants, and vines and their parts to make their lives better. The same has been shown in literature as parables, metaphors, and symbols. The ancient Tamils lived dividing medicine as health medicine and psychiatry. It can be known through the literature that medicine for physical health has been classified as natural medicine, music medicine, and surgical medicine, and they have been maintaining health on the basis of food as medicine, and they have removed stress through methods such as relaxation, soothing, and hysteresis as medicine for mental health. Also, classifying the diseases as pain, illness, and suffering, they prescribed medicines for them. Our forefathers used to call doctors "pathologists" and medical women "doctor and midwife." Also, this article is a study that shows the people of the Sangam period knew the medicinal properties of plants and used them as food and medicine with the high principle of 'food is medicine and medicine is food'.

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