The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c11.21

c11.21

In later Upaniṣads, particularly in those of the Yoga, references to the doctrine of five breaths are very frequent but are often later than in the texts of classical medicine; they do not have, therefore, as opposed to the earlier ones, much of interest to show this doctrine in an already constituted form between the period of the Veda and that of Āyurveda.