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<div style="text-align:justify;">[[Nidana Sthana]], the second section within [[Charak Samhita]], is about guidelines for diagnosing disease on the basis of detailed history and clinical examination. The word Nidana literally means primary cause and diagnosis.<ref> Available from http://spokensanskrit.org/index.php?mode=3&script=hk&tran_input=nidana&direct=au accessed on May 02,2019</ref> The five methods to know a disease viz. [[hetu]] (causative factors), [[purvarupa]] (premonitory signs and symptoms), [[rupa]] (clinical features),[[upashaya]] (pacifying factors) and [[samprapti]] (etio-pathogenesis).The comprehensive study guides a physician to diagnose and treat disease with minimal use of laboratory, imaging and other tools.
 
<div style="text-align:justify;">[[Nidana Sthana]], the second section within [[Charak Samhita]], is about guidelines for diagnosing disease on the basis of detailed history and clinical examination. The word Nidana literally means primary cause and diagnosis.<ref> Available from http://spokensanskrit.org/index.php?mode=3&script=hk&tran_input=nidana&direct=au accessed on May 02,2019</ref> The five methods to know a disease viz. [[hetu]] (causative factors), [[purvarupa]] (premonitory signs and symptoms), [[rupa]] (clinical features),[[upashaya]] (pacifying factors) and [[samprapti]] (etio-pathogenesis).The comprehensive study guides a physician to diagnose and treat disease with minimal use of laboratory, imaging and other tools.
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===Two important aspects in knowledge of disease===
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===Important aspects of knowledge of disease===
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There are two important aspects in knowing a disease as per principles of [[Ayurveda]]. It always considers interaction between the individual and the affecting pathological entities.
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[[File:Aspects of Nidana Sthana .jpg|400px|Image 1:Aspects of Nidana Section]]
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'''Image 1: Aspects of Nidana Section'''
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Nidana section studies diagnostic principles in view of two important aspects like knowledge of roga (disease) and rugna (patient). It always considers interaction between the individual and the affecting pathological entities. It also considers the prognosis and inter-relation of different diseases or co-morbid conditions.
    
====Analysis of the individual====
 
====Analysis of the individual====

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