Scharfetter C
Schweiz Med Wochenschr. 1976 Apr 24;106(17):565-72.
The ancient medicine of India (ayurveda) is a broadly conceptualized anthropology embracing the whole human being without the Western body/soul dualism. A symptomatology based on careful observation leads, in conjunction with etiology, pathogenesis and pathology, with constitutional and personality features, to a differentiated nosology. This broad concept is matched by multidimensional therapy embracing pharmacologic, surgical, psychotherapeutic and "paramedical" measures. Ayurveda ("life knowledge") is a combination of religious, philosophical, anthropological, medical and psychological concepts. It is impressive how accurate the knowledge and description of psychiatric diseases already was 2,500 years ago, and how little these phenomena have changed with time. The therapeutic armamentarium (paramedical, psychotherapeutic and pharmacologic) of ayurveda psychiatry has not yet been sufficiently studied by scientific methods.
古印度医学（阿育吠陀医学）是一种广义概念的人类学，它接纳整个人类，不存在西方的身心二元论。基于细致观察的症状学，结合病因学、发病机制、病理学以及体质和人格特征，形成了一种差异化的疾病分类学。这一宽泛的概念与包含药物、手术、心理治疗和“辅助医疗”措施的多维治疗相匹配。阿育吠陀医学（“生命知识”）是宗教、哲学、人类学、医学和心理学概念的结合。令人印象深刻的是早在2500年前，对精神疾病的认识和描述就已经如此准确，而且这些现象随时间变化如此之小。阿育吠陀精神病学的治疗手段（辅助医疗、心理治疗和药物治疗）尚未得到科学方法的充分研究。
