A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c26.s3.12

v1.c26.s3.12

This emphasis on a doctrine making four great elements and their imbalance into basic concepts of medical theory disagrees completely with āyurveda,²⁷⁹ which is characterized by a theory acknowledging the three doṣas and their imbalance as basic, while five, not four, great elements are also given considerable scope. This is the more remarkable when it is taken into account that the tridoṣavāda was not unknown to I-ching.280