FOUR CONSTITUTIONAL TYPES
12-02-2011, 06:34   General   Author: tornike    645 |

FOUR  CONSTITUTIONAL  TYPES  OF  MAN  AND  FORMS  OF  PATHOLOGICAL   REACTION   IN   GEORGIAN  TRADITIONAL  MEDICINE,  HOMEOPATHY  AND  ORIENTAL  MEDICINE.

ALASHVILI   TORNIKE,   MEMBER   OF   LMHI.

 

Questions  of  diagnostics  and  classifications  of  illnesses  occupy  a  major  place  in  medicine,  determines  its  form  and  character.  For  example,  the  modern  scientific  technical  medicine  allocates  illnesses   to  morphological  symptoms,  aetiological  factors  or  on  a  degree  of  functional  decompensation. This  approach  has  its  positive  moments,  but  if  also  has  the  limitation  at  the  same  time.  The classification of illnesses takes into account   that  general,  which is  characteristic  for  a  pathology  of  the  certain  bodies  or  concrete  aetiology, but  if  does  not  take  into  account  that  general, which  always  is  present  at  various  pathologies  of  the  same  individual.

Diagnostics in homoeopathy and traditional medicine systems carries syndromological character.  Syndromological  diagnosis  in  these  systems  is  not  limited  to  separate  bodies  or  systems,  it  includes  the  whole  organism  of  the  man, takes  into  account  the  constitutional  type,  mentality,  individual  symptoms  both  basic  disease  and  accompanying,   transferred  and  as  diseases showing  in  family  anamnesis.

Georgian Tradicional Medicine
15-02-2011, 11:00   General   Author: tornike    255 |


                                      

                Georgian Tradicional Medicine

The Georgian medicine has the most ancient roots. A known German naturalist and historian of medicine. Kurt Ioakhim Shprengel (1766 – 1833), in his five - languid works on a history of medicine of the peoples of the world opens by the chapter about the old Colchian medicine. Ancient Georgian doctors knew well both with medical and with poisoning properties of plants, animals and minerals. For example, Medea, a daugliter of king Aietes, the heroine of a legend about Atgonavts was the well – known doctor and connoisseur of poisons.
With her name the historians connect occurrence of a latin word medico (to cure, to treat) and a term "medicine". Many kings of Georgia and their citizens tested poisons on themselves, developing the immunity. In Georgia more than 2000 bock was engaged the vaccination of pox. There are data that Hipokrat himself traveled on the Black Sea coast on Colchian lowland. With the task of searching of traces of ancient medicine.