Nadivijnanam and Nadiprakasham

Author(s): J C Sikdar
Publisher: Prakrit Bharti Academy

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in the light of observations and experiments, both dealing with diseases and remedies for curing them.
The vast Ayurvedic literature of the Hindus, Bauddhas and Jains highly speaks of the glorious contributions of Ayurveda in the field of Indian Medical Science.
A Study of Nadivijnanam of Maharsi Kanada reveals the scientific ideas and practices of Ayurveda of the ancient Indians with a distinct trend to pathology (Nidana) and diagnosis of diseases, curability and incurability of diseases, deaths of patients, longevity of the life of a person, and auspicious and inauspicious symptoms of diseases as indicated by different kinds of beatings (or movement) of the pulse of a patient.
It appears that during the period of Maharsi Kanada a mass of medical information on the diagnosis of diseases based on the examination of pulse was accumulated in the treatise of Ayurveda.
The prominent feature of Nadivijnanam of Maharsi Kanada lay in the diagnosis of various diseases, curable and incurable, and ascertainment of death and time of death as indicated by the examination of the movement of the pulse of a patient.
Different kinds of symptoms of movement or beating of the pulse indicating its nature were meant to be the helpful accessories in the diagnosis of various diseases affecting men.
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