The Jungle and the Aroma of Meats: An Ecological Theme in Hindu Medicine (Comparative Studies of Health Systems & Medical Care)

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The theory of humors, vital fluids whose proportions in the human body determine its health and temperament, is far from outdated and what we sometime think of as a modern concern with ecology and alternative medicine is really as old as the traditional medical techniques of the classical west of south Asia. It is to the latter that Francis Zimmermann turns his attention, in a remarkable evocation that combines Sanskrit studies and anthropology. He reconstructs and exposes the linkage between humors, persons and soils in classical Hindu medicine. His work will interested those involved in the areas of medical anthropology, medical anthropology, medical history, philosophy of science, philosophy of language and south Asian studies. It will also be valued for the vivid and accurate descriptions it offers of a few basic ideas our time has borrowed from Hindu culture: flower power, vegetarianism, non-violence and the comic dimensions of the human body. In classical Ayurvedic medicine, a comprehensive view of the whole human person included the patient’s humoral integration into the surrounding soil. The jungle was the most crucial environment and the Jungle was and is the dry land of the Punjab and the Delhi Doab, an open vegetation of thorny shrubs. The polarity of dry lands and wet lands framed not only the whole ayurvedic material medical but also the more general conception of a comic physiology governed by Agni (the sun) and Soma (the dispenser of rain). Clearing the land and draining the body were two aspects of one and the same art of managing the transactions of all sorts of vital fluids, saps, juices, savors and humor. Medicine in the context of thought and practice associated with the jungle was and still in modern India, a kind of agriculture.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Motilal Banarsidass Publishers (1 January 2011)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 266 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 8120816188
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-8120816183
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 254 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 19 x 1 x 22 cm
Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ India

Reviewer: Vishal
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Zimmerman research paper
Review: How elaborate and yet concise this book is, amazes me.The content of such diversity itself is a challenge to encapsulate in a book.Author maps the intuition and logic polarity with abstract and concrete approach.”Word and Perception” section is fascinating.

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