Essay name: The Nervous System in Yoga and Tantra (Study)
Author:
Ashok Majumdar
Affiliation: Banaras Hindu University / Department of Kayachikitsa
This study deals with the presentation of the Nervous System in Yoga, Tantra and Ayurveda. Yoga and Ayurveda are allied sciences dealing with science of man in depth. This study has revealed a number of hither to unknown facts about concept of nervous system and thought science of Hindus.
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FUNDAMENTALS OF AYURVEDA 228 I. CONCEPTION OF THE ANCIENT HINDUS REGARDING THE PHYSICAL
WORLD
(1) THE PRINCIPLE OF VAYU PITTA AND KAPHA
Tridosha and Panchama habhuta are the fundamentals
of Ayurveda. The theory of Panchama habhuta is an undisputed
and unanimously accepted doctrine of Indian thought. It
forms an axis round which the Ayurvedic concepts of Tridosa,
embryonic development, body constitution and composition
and action of drugs, seasonal variation and their effect
and five fold classification of matter etc. revolve.
The physiology of Western medicine is quite different
from that of Ayurvedic medicine, which is the physiology
of Vayu, Pitta and Kapha. Modern physiology may help an
Ayurveda student to some extent in the study of his subject.
For the successful treatment of diseases according
to any system of medicine, one must have a sound knowledge
of the physiology and what is more to the point, of pathology
according to that system. So anybody who professes to
practise Ayurvedic medicine must get to know the Tridosa.
But to know the three Dosas, it is less than useless to
study them from the point of view of Modern science alone.
To thoroughly understand the real meaning of what the old
