Hindu Achievements in Exact Science: A Study in the History of Scientific Development c20.s2: (b) The Doctrine of Humors

Hindu Achievements in Exact Science: A Study in the History of Scientific Development c20.s2

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(b) The Doctrine of Humors

c20.s2.1

The physiology of humors, whatever its worth, is older in India than in Greece. At any rate, the Hindu and the Greek humoral pathologies are independent systems. Hippocrates counted four humors, viz., blood, bile, water, and phlegm; but Charaka propounded three, viz., air, bile, and phlegm.

Linked texts (1)

Carakasaṃhitā — Agniveśa (Āyurveda) & Caraka, Sanskrit