Mamsa Peshi, Meda and Asthi in the Bhavaprakasha: The Five Hundred Muscles, the Fat That Gathers at the Belly and the Bones That Outlast the Body (Dhatu Prakarana)

Quick Summary After naming the five vatas, five pittas and five kaphas, the Bhavaprakasha’s Purva Khanda walks deeper into the...

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Kledana, Avalambana, Rasana, Snehana, Shleshmana: The Five Kaphas of the Bhavaprakasha — One Moon-Cool Dosha in Five Stations, and the Stomach Kapha That Waters Them All

Quick Summary With this reading, the Bhavaprakasha’s tour of the three doshas completes its circle. After the five winds and...

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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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Prakriti in Ashtanga Hridaya: Vagbhata's 7 Ayurvedic Body Constitutions, Dosha Clock, Agni & Kostha Types

Quick takeaway: In Ashtanga Hridaya Sutrasthana 1.10, Vagbhata — the third author of the Brihat-Trayi after Charaka and Sushruta —...

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