India's medical system includes Ayurvedic medicine and Siddhartha medicine. It is considered as the oldest medical system in the world. For more than 5000 years, it has been used in countless traditional Indian families. Its influence affects almost all medical systems in the northern and southern hemispheres, so Ayurveda in India is known as the "mother of medical care". As can be seen from the early literature, Ayurveda doctors have prophetic views on the powerful medical characteristics of plants, which can be said to be the originator of modern pharmacology. They are also very familiar with the operation in the body, and there is even evidence that Ayurveda doctors have performed human surgery. In addition, this system has always emphasized the importance of diet and spirituality, and Ayurveda can be seen in the traditional Chinese medicine in China and the medical methods of Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine. Ayurvedic traditional medicine can be traced back to the Vedic era in 5000 BC. It is famous for the oldest comprehensive medical system recorded in the world.

According to Indian mythology, the origin of Ayurveda is legendary. It was founded by Brahma, one of the three great Hindu gods, in order to protect mankind before he created it. Brahma first taught Ayurveda to twin stable boy, the god of medicine, and they taught Indra, the god who specializes in thunderstorms. Indra was taught to wise men who practiced on earth, and they passed it on to their descendants and disciples.

Historically, the records of Ayurveda first appeared in the ancient Indian poetry collection Rigveda in 6000 BC. From 3000 BC to 2000 BC, Atapo, one of the four vedic classics, came out, among which Ayurveda, as a supplement to the vedic classics, was attached to Atapo Veda. Although Ayurvedic medicine has been applied to practice for a long time, it has not been compiled into a book by oral tradition until now and has become an independent science. The following are eight branches of Ayurvedic medicine:

1.Kayachikitsa (internal medicine)

2. Sarakaya Tantra (Head and Neck Surgery and Treatment, Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology)

3. Charageat Tantra (Surgery)

4. Agada Tantra (Toxicology)

5.bhuta vidya (psychiatry)

6.Kaumarabhritya (Pediatrics)

7. Gerontology for delaying physical aging

8.Vajikarana (fertility)

The earliest discussion of the above eight branches appeared in Atiye, and it is still applied in real life. Around BC 1500, Ayurvedic medicine was divided into two schools: Attuyer, a school of internal medicine, and Davantari, a school of surgery, which made it a more systematic science. These two schools have compiled two major Ayurvedic medical works-Karaka Sassi Tower and Suruta Sassi Tower. These two medical classics were written in the first half of BC 1 century. Cherokee Collection, written by the great Indian medical ancestor Cherokee and supplemented by Atiye, is still the most widely used Ayurvedic medical work. Miao Wen inherited the theory of Tan Fantoli School, the originator of Indian medicine. His Collection of Miao collected all kinds of knowledge about prosthetic surgery, including limb replacement surgery, plastic surgery, laparotomy and even brain surgery. At the same time, he is also famous for inventing rhinoplasty. Around 500 A.D., the third important Ayurvedic medical work "Astaing Jia Khridaya" was published. It integrates the viewpoints of two Ayurvedic medical schools. From 500 to 1900, 16 important drug monographs appeared one after another. As a supplement to Ayurvedic medical classics, various new drugs were collected and recorded, their usage was expanded, and the old method of distinguishing drugs from substances was abandoned.

There is evidence that Ayurvedic medicine has enriched almost all medical systems in the world. Through the maritime trade with India, Egyptians learned about Ayurvedic medicine. The invasion of Alexander the Great brought the Greeks and Romans into contact with Ayurveda. Traditional Unani medicine was formed in this kind of communication. At the beginning of the first Millennium, with the spread of Buddhism to the East, Ayurvedic medicine also spread to the East, which had a great influence on Tibetan medicine and traditional Chinese herbal medicine.