Bhavamisra Ancient Ayurveda Practitioners

March 23rd, 2007 | admin

Bhavamisra or Bhava Misra was an Ayurvedic practitioner lived in 16th century AD. His contributions to Indian medicine include his compilation of vast treatise by Bhava Prakasa. The compilations have reference to all the different branches of zoology and medicine – anatomy, embryology, physiology, pathology, diseases, diagnosis, medicines, etc.

He is also the first to explain several concepts appearing in ancient Ayurvedic scripts. Bhavamisra studies medicine systems prevailed in other countries like Persia and Sri Lanka.