AN AYURVEDIC OUTLOOK ON AIR POLLUTION WITH SPECIAL REFFERENCE TO JANAPADODWAMSA

Ayurveda, Environment

Environmental pollution is a major threat for human population in current and coming times. The situation is becoming worst day to day. It has a negative effect on natural elements that are an absolute need for life to exist on earth, such as water and air. Environmental pollution consists of five basic types of pollution, namely, air, water, soil, noise and light. Today not a single component of ecosystem remains free form pollution. It exerts harmful effects not only on human health but also destroys the environment which is the ultimately results in the destruction of life on planet earth. As the situations of pollution in the environment exist since time immemorial, references are available in classic Ayurvedic texts such as Charaka samhita, Susrutha samhita etc, these being some of the most epic literatures in ancient medical science since the historic era. Among those literatures the most notifiable one is Charaka samhita, where Acharya charaka explains the subject of pollution in detail on the grounds of environmental situations that prevailed in ancient era.

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