Clinical Consequences of Microbial Infections in Caraka Samhita

The diseases in Ayurveda are categorized into endogenous and exogenous. Infections exercise a major part among the exogenous categories. A vivid description of infectious diseases, their pathogenesis and treatment have been documented in Ayurvedic treatises. Microbes are responsible factor for infection. So to combat the microbes and their newly developing strains is a great challenge. Though, the term microbes or microbial activity have not been clearly described in Ayurvedic texts but similar concept, their functional activities and remedies have been depicted. Charaka Samhita, on the basis of its own underline philosophy and the then prevailing thoughts, has described almost all possible aspects of microbial infections in rational consequential way. The present article deals with the ancient approach of microbial infections and its clinical consequences in Charaka Samhita.