The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c7.s2.91

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It does not follow that Indian medicine owes to Indo-Iranian ideas nothing other than the notions recorded by us, such as the relationship of the physical evil with the twists to general good order or those of the curative virtues of the waters, the plants and the holy formulae; all these notions, despite their relationship with medicine, are not at all scientific. On the contrary, some of the fundamental concepts of the theoretical system of classical Indian medicine appear to have been inherited from the Indo-Iranian concepts, non-scientific at the time of its origin, but utilised for the dogmatic construction of the Āyurveda.