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Ardita vāta (facial paralysis): a concise historical survey
Bulletin of the Indian Institute of History of Medicine (Hyderabad)
|January 1, 1993
Abstract:
In India the struggle to conquer the diseases began centuries and centuries ago and it is as old as human civilisation. It can be safely presumed that during Vedic period diseases like Ardita vata, Pakshaghata etc. were prevalent. The Brhat Trai, composed during samhita period have described Ardita Vata Vyadhi. The Laghu Trai occupy the next place after Samhitas. Ardita has been mentioned in these works. Other popular texts like Kashyaa Samhita and Bhela Samhita also contain the references about this disease. Modern medicine noticed this disease as facial paralysis at a very later period in the early 18th century.