Asthi Sharira: Why the Sushruta Samhita Counts 300 Bones — Sharira Sankhya, the Classical Ayurvedic Map of the Body

Quick Summary Ask a modern anatomist how many bones are in the human body and the answer is 206. Ask...

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Udara Roga in the Sushruta Samhita: The Eight Types of Abdominal Swelling in Ayurveda (Nidana Sthana)

Quick Summary Roughly two thousand years ago, the surgeon-physicians of India sat down and did something remarkable: they sorted the...

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Anjali Pramana: The Body Measured by the Handful in the Sushruta Samhita, Ashtanga Hridaya and Bhavaprakasha

Quick Summary Long before beakers, weighing scales or a single blood test, classical Ayurveda had already asked a strikingly modern...

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Garbhotpatti in the Bhavaprakasha: The Ayurvedic Understanding of Conception, Shukra-Shonita and the Forming of the Embryo (Garbha)

Quick Summary Long before anyone had seen an egg, a sperm or a chromosome, the physicians of classical India sat...

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Rajasvala Paricharya: The Bhavaprakasha's Classical Ayurvedic Care of Menstruation (Rtumati and the Garbha Prakarana)

Quick Summary For most of human history, the monthly rhythm of a woman's body was met not with a tampon...

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Pancha Mahabhuta: The Five Great Elements of Ayurveda (Akasha, Vayu, Agni, Jala, Prithvi) from the Bhavaprakasha

Quick Summary Ayurveda teaches that everything you can see, touch, taste, smell or hear — your body, your food, your...

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