Which of the following statements related to Indian medicine system is not correct?
- (a)The Siddha system is a holistic system of medicine.
- (b)Sowa-Rigpa has been in practice in the Himalayan regions of India.
- (c)Unani system of medicine has been dissociated from the Ministry of Ayush.
- (d)Sushruta Samhita is a major source of Ayurveda.
Correct — C, Unani system of medicine has been dissociated from the Ministry of Ayush. This is the statement that fails, and it fails at the level of the ministry's name: AYUSH is an acronym for Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy, so Unani is one of the systems the ministry exists to regulate and promote. The department was elevated to a full ministry on 9 November 2014, and Unani has stayed within it throughout, with a Central Council of Research in Unani Medicine and a National Institute of Unani Medicine under its wing. The other three statements stand. Siddha, the Tamil system built on the mukkuttram framework of three humours and on diet and regimen, is properly described as holistic. Sowa-Rigpa, the Himalayan or Tibetan system, is practised in Ladakh, Sikkim and neighbouring areas and was recognised by the Government of India in 2010, with a National Institute of Sowa-Rigpa established at Leh. And the Sushruta Samhita, the great surgical compendium, is one of the principal sources of Ayurveda.
- (a)The Siddha system is a holistic system of medicine. — Correct as stated. Siddha treats illness as an imbalance of the three humours and works through diet, regimen and herbal, mineral and animal preparations — a whole-person approach.
- (b)Sowa-Rigpa has been in practice in the Himalayan regions of India. — Correct. Sowa-Rigpa is practised in Ladakh, Sikkim, Himachal Pradesh and Arunachal Pradesh, and the Government recognised it in 2010.
- (d)Sushruta Samhita is a major source of Ayurveda. — Correct. Along with the Charaka Samhita it is one of the two foundational texts of classical Ayurveda, and is celebrated for its surgical chapters.
The Ministry of Ayush administers India's traditional and alternative medicine systems. The acronym covers Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy, and Sowa-Rigpa was added to the fold after its recognition in 2010. Each system has a research council and, in most cases, a national institute; education and practice are regulated through the National Commission for Indian System of Medicine and the National Commission for Homoeopathy, which replaced the older central councils in 2020-21.
Which-statement-is-not-correct items on this topic usually plant the error in an institutional claim rather than in a description of the medicine, because the descriptions are hard to falsify. That is the pattern here: three sentences describe systems and texts accurately, and the fourth makes an administrative claim that the ministry's own name refutes. Reading the acronym letter by letter is the fastest disproof available. Worth flagging: UPSC has not released a key for this paper, and some answer keys in circulation mark (a). That would require the description of Siddha as holistic to be false, which nothing supports, while the claim in (c) is refuted by the ministry's own name, so this card takes (c).
- AYUSH stands for Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy; the ministry was formed on 9 November 2014.
- Sowa-Rigpa was recognised by the Government of India in 2010; the National Institute of Sowa-Rigpa is at Leh.
- The Charaka Samhita and the Sushruta Samhita are the foundational texts of Ayurveda, the latter known for surgery.
- Siddha is centred in Tamil Nadu and is traditionally traced to the Siddhars, with Agastya named as its founding figure.
- Assuming a system named after a foreign-sounding tradition sits outside the ministry — Unani and Sowa-Rigpa are both within it.
- Attributing surgery to the Charaka Samhita; that is the Sushruta Samhita's contribution.
- Confusing the older central councils with the two commissions that replaced them.
As a which-statement-is-not-correct item mixing descriptions of the systems with an institutional claim, or as a text-to-system match.
No directly related past PYQ was found.
- practice — not a real PYQ
The letter U in the acronym AYUSH stands for
- (a)Unani
- (b)Urology
- (c)Universal medicine
- (d)Upanishadic healing
Answer(a) Unani — the acronym covers Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy.
- practice — not a real PYQ
The National Institute of Sowa-Rigpa is located at
- (a)Gangtok
- (b)Leh
- (c)Shimla
- (d)Itanagar
Answer(b) Leh — Sowa-Rigpa, the Himalayan system recognised by the Government in 2010, has its national institute in Ladakh.