ABSTRACT
As soon as the diagnosis is made, the step which follows is the planning and implementation of treatment. Unless there are clear reasons for surgery, patients are always managed by medical treatment, which is the first option. For the optimal treatment of a patient according to Ayurveda, it is mandatory to have a medical quartet in place. Specialities existed in Ayurveda which had specialized texts for eye disease, paediatrics, obstetrics, and poisoning. Several procedures in Ayurveda such as pancakarma and rasayana impress an observer by the imaginative hypothesis which underlies them. Mental illness was recognised as a branch of medicine and called bhutavidya, which figures in the Chandogya Upanisad. Caraka believed that mind had its own channels in the body, which were connected with the dhamanis arising from the heart. The exogenous type of illness is quite different from the types caused by dosa perturbation.
