The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c9.76

c9.76

The following portion of the text similarly details the functions of the inferior and horizontal *dhamánis*, which carry in the body the entire matter of flow and circulation. The intestines, therefore, figure in the list of *dhamánis*, but the *dhamánis* are not, in general, the intestines; they are simply the canals of the organism. In the *Atharvaveda*, they are more particularly the vessels but the word must have had, from the beginning, the general sense of “canal” which it has in *Āyurveda*.