Medicine and Logic in Ancient India: Ontology and Epistemology in the Early Stages of Ayurvedic Medicine

Abstract

 The Āyurveda medicine is a medicine system that has been existing in the indian subcontinent for more than two thousands years and is put inside at the vedics traditions because it adopts the same philosophycal conceptions of the others ortodoxical schools of indian philosophy(that accept the Vedas authority) and one of its seminals books, the Caraka Saṁhitā, is associated principally with the thought of the Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika system, adopting their ontology and epistemology, which demonstration is the main objective of this article