BBC News - Bhoot Vidya: India university to teach doctors Ghost Studies.
Sorry BBC, Bhuta Vidya भूत विद्या in आयुर्वेद means "Psychotherapy" and not "Ghost Studies".
Is UK so financially strapped that BBC can't even hire competent journalists?
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Sorry BBC, Bhuta Vidya भूत विद्या in आयुर्वेद means "Psychotherapy" and not "Ghost Studies".
Is UK so financially strapped that BBC can't even hire competent journalists?
bbc.com/news/world-asi…
Āyurvedic has eight branches: kāyāchikitsā (internal medicine), shalyachikitsā (surgery, anatomy), shālākyachikitsā (ENT diseases), kaumārabhritya (pediatrics), bhūtavidyā (psychiatry), agada tantra (toxicology), rasāyana (science of rejuvenation), and vājīkarana (fertility).
Ayurveda:
Charaka (Vi, 7.11), Sushruta (Utta, 54.19-20) and Vagbhata (Ni, 14.51) state that the pathogens growing in the blood are invisible.
Certainly the most advanced medicine of its times! And it has stuff related to mind-body that remains relevant for our times.
Charaka (Vi, 7.11), Sushruta (Utta, 54.19-20) and Vagbhata (Ni, 14.51) state that the pathogens growing in the blood are invisible.
Certainly the most advanced medicine of its times! And it has stuff related to mind-body that remains relevant for our times.
The Ayurvedic theory of microorganisms explains why Indians frowned upon many people putting their lips to the same chalice (as in the Eucharist, which perhaps contributed to Europe's Middle Ages' epidemics) or the West Asian custom of several people eating out of the same plate.
It is also good to know that inoculation, one of the most efficacious aspects of modern medicine, comes from Ayurveda.
swarajyamag.com/books/smallpox
swarajyamag.com/books/smallpox
