With its deep-rooted culture and vivid diversity, India has always been the land of great values and practices. The culture imbibes so many special features from all areas. Be it the colorful traditional values or the pristine dutiful aspect of the land. Every single thing adds up to its asset. Let’s say for the rich inherent natural therapies in India that subsists as an essence.
Among the major trademarks like pancha karma under Ayurveda, Siddha medicine is also a conventional inherent therapy of India. More or less, the fundamental conception of Siddha is very analogous to Ayurveda. The variation lies mainly in its foundation, as Siddha medicine is of Dravidian origin and has been written entirely in Tamil.
The origin also sways to the mythological era towards the Shaiva (worship of Lord Shiva) practice. The basic philosophy of Siddha therapy avows that the entire cosmic universe is the combination of Shiva (meaning matter, male etc) and Shakti (meaning energy, female etc). Matter is nothing without energy and vice versa.
Furthermore, there are also the pancha bhootas or five elements present in different ratios in every matter. These five constituents are earth, water, fire, air and space. According to the Siddha system of medicine, it is believed that the entire human composition and functioning, contributing reasons of diseases and cure, nourishment required for the correct functioning; every thing is related to the balance of the above five elements. So, the therapy completely lies onto the natural methodology.
Medicines for the treatment are prepared, while chanting pious mantras during Brahma Muhurtha (between 04:00 to 05:30 am). Though, alchemy is not the basis of Siddha foundation but in some ways, alchemical contemplations take over it. The premeditated use of metallic compound as the medicinal ingredient substantiates the fact.
The diagnosis of the disorder is done by eight dissimilar ways. Nadi (feeling the pulse), Niram (colour), Sparisam (touch), Mozhi (voice), Vizhi (eyes), Naa (tongue), Malam ( stool), Moothiram (urine). Nadi means prognosis by analyzing the pulse. Siddha medicine has also formulated the widely popular Kaya-Kalpa. Kaya Kalpa refers to permanence of youth with an absolute freedom from all sorts of infirmities. The remedy has some similarities with the Rasayanam of Ayurveda.
With so many out of the ordinary features in its pool, Siddha medicine has achieved inevitable achievement in curing lots of chronic diseases. Since ancient times, it has worked as a mystic art in lots of bleak cases. And the same is expected in the coming years from this inherent art bestowed to the race of humanity.
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