Ancient information about the essence of medicine of Asclepius and his followers
AUTHORS : Lazarenko V.G.
RELEVANT UNIVERSITIES : Faculty of advanced training for doctors Izhevsk State Medical Academy, Izhevsk
YEAR : 2013
RESUME Nowadays the knowledge about creators of first healing systems in Greece ”Gods of medicine” who had significant part of real history and quite established ideology is very superficial among medical society. Appolo and Asclepius represent them. Their medicine was
based on primitive animistic beliefs and shamanistic techniques. Their followers in classical and Ancient Greece continued to practice medicine based on personal contact with Asclepius during sleep or religious ecstasy. Keywords: Asklepios, Apollo, shamanism, traditional medicine, integrative
medicine.