Visarga, Adana, Vikshepa: How Soma, Surya and Anila Uphold the Body — the Dosha Prakarana of the Bhavaprakasha

Quick Summary Deep in the Purva Khanda of the Bhavaprakasha, the great sixteenth-century encyclopedia of Ayurveda, the text finishes counting...

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The Six Factors That Form a Human Being: Garbhavakranti and Shad Garbhakara Bhava in the Charaka Samhita

Quick Summary What, exactly, makes a human being? Two thousand years ago the Charaka Samhita took that question with complete...

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