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.
Chapter 7 - The Physiological and the Pathological concepts of Tridosha Theory
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observes the rules of health. The second variety is due to one's negligence of these rules. 306 The last three varieties of diseases are Adhidaivika.
(c) TRIDOSA ARE THE SOLE AGENTS FOR PRODUCING A DISEASE
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But whatsoever the disease may be, it can never
be produced without the association of Vayu, Pitta or Kapha
Susruta, following the Samkhya view, here gives the analogy
that just as all the manifested phenomena of the universe
are but modifications of the three gunes
Sattva, Rajas
and Tamas, so also the three Dosas are at the root of all
the varieties of diseases (SS.Su.24:8). Charaka also says
that all kinds of Nija diseases are produced by Vayu, Pitta
and Kapha and by nothing else. (The term Nija is used here
to exclude the Agantu variety in which there is pain first
due to any extraneous cause and then affection of the
Tridosa afterwards). Just as a vulture, however much it
may try, cannot overstep its own shadow, so also a disease
which is produced by the unbalancing of the Dhatu, can
never be dissociated from Vayu, Pitta and Kapha (CS I 19:16).
When Charaka and Susruta say all kinds of diseases,
they mean diseases whether mentioned by them in their
respective treatises or not. Charaka has made this very
clear when he says (CS.Su.18:44) that no body need be ashamed
if he cannot give a name to a particular disease, because
it is impossible to give a name to every disease. It is
