The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c7.s2.92
The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c7.s2.92
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The Āyurvedic theory of three essential principles, which are of the human or animal organism and at the same time of the cosmos, i.e., water, fire and wind, is not given in outline in the Avesta, but a part of the notions which has remained classical for each of these principles is common to the Avesta and the Veda and goes back, in all probability, to the Indo-Iranian period.