{"id":26597,"date":"2024-09-15T12:03:18","date_gmt":"2024-09-15T06:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=26597"},"modified":"2025-04-08T03:19:52","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T21:49:52","slug":"siddha-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/siddha-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Siddha Medicine?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Siddha Medicine:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>traditional system of healing<\/strong> that <strong>originated in South India<\/strong> and is considered to be one of India\u2019s oldest systems of medicine.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Literary evidences of the Sangam Era state the origin of this system to <strong>around 10,000 BC.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The Siddha system was <strong>built on the work of Siddhars<\/strong>, who were mostly from Tamil Nadu. It is called the Siddha medical system because of this.<\/li>\n<li>Siddhars were <strong>spiritual masters<\/strong> who had the <strong>eight special abilities called siddhis<\/strong>. <strong>Some<\/strong> of the 18 Siddhars <strong>were Nandi, Agasthyar, Agappai<\/strong>, Pumbatti, etc.<\/li>\n<li>The Siddha medical system is thought to have been <strong>started by Agastyar,<\/strong> who is also <strong>known as Agasthya.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Siddhars in rural India have traditionally learned their craft from elders in their communities.<\/li>\n<li>The Siddha system is based on a <strong>combination of ancient medicinal practices and spiritual disciplines,<\/strong> as well as <strong>alchemy and mysticism<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The Siddha medicinal system not only focuses on treating the disease, but it <strong>also takes into account<\/strong> the patient\u2019s <strong>behaviour, environmental aspects, age,<\/strong> habits, and physical condition.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is based on <strong>principles of panchamahabhootam<\/strong> (five basic elements), 96 thathuvas (principles), mukkuttram (3 humours), and 6 arusuvai (6 tastes).\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Soil, fire, water, sky, and air<\/strong> are the <strong>five elements<\/strong> that <strong>Siddha practitioners believe<\/strong> can be found in everything from food to the \u201chumour\u201d of the human body to herbal, animal, and inorganic chemical substance sulphur and mercury.<\/li>\n<li>These <strong>have therapeutic potential<\/strong> and can be employed in the treatment of many illnesses.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1<\/strong>: What is anemia?<\/h3>\n<p>Anemia is a problem of not having enough healthy red blood cells or hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the body&#8217;s tissues. Hemoglobin is a protein found in red cells that carries oxygen from the lungs to all other organs in the body. Having anemia can cause tiredness, weakness and shortness of breath.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/health.economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/industry\/siddha-drugs-combination-lowers-anaemia-in-adolescent-girls-says-study\/113226969\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>&#8216;Siddha&#8217; drugs combination lowers anaemia in adolescent girls, says study<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Siddha Medicine is a traditional system of healing that originated in South India and is considered to be one of India\u2019s oldest systems of medicine. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":26598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26597","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}