Medicine in India: from the 6th century BC

Medicine in India: from the 6th century BC
Susruta, the founding father of Indian medicine, establishes a tradition later enshrined in a classic text, the Susrutasamhita. He identifies 1120 diseases, lists 760 medicinal drugs, and says that the surgeon's equipment amounts to 20 sharp instruments (including knives, scissors, saws and needles) and 101 blunt ones (such as forceps, tubes, levers, hooks and probes). His explanation of how to rebuild a patient's nose has given him the status of the first plastic surgeon. This is an important operation in ancient India. Amputation of the nose is a punishment for adultery.				Indian medicine enshrines the theory that the human body consists of three substances, and that health requires a balance between them. They are usually translated as spirit, phlegm and bile.

Wrong understanding by the intellect and wrong actions (accordingly) should be known as intellectual error which is committed by mind.
Sa1#109

Happiness and misery arise due to contact of the self, sense organs, mind and the sense objects but when the mind is steadily concentrated to the self, both cease to exist due to non-initiation and a supernatural power comes forth into the person. This state is known as “yoga” by the expert sages.
Sa1#138-139