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Charaka

चरक

Caraka

Charaka's Samhita is the foundational treatise of Ayurvedic internal medicine, fusing rigorous clinical observation with a holistic theory of body and mind.

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Era
ancient; redacted c. 2nd century CE
field
Medicine, Ayurveda
sourcing
textually attested

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