Hindu Medicine c11.3

c11.3

⁸ Cf. Yoga: Personal Hygiene by Shri Yogendra, The Yoga Institute, Bombay, 1940. The volume forms part of a series of publications of the Bombay Yoga Institute. In 1931 the Institute started with a periodical, " Yoga "; this after three years was supplemented by a sequence of monographs on the various aspects and aims of yoga practice relating to the criticism and experimental research of Western medicine and psychology. The author, well versed in Western medicine, is a pupil of the late Hindu saint and yoga teacher, Yogīśvara Paramahaṃsa Mādhvadāsjī, who died in 1921. Mādhvadāsjī entrusted the author with the task of initiating a " practical Yoga Renaissance." For this purpose Shri Yogendra founded the Bombay Yoga Institute, toured the United States, and collaborated with various Western scholars. The two first chapters of his book deal with the " Ideals of Yoga Hygiene " and the " Possibilities of Eternal Youth," the other chapters specialize on the Yoga treatment of various parts and organs of the body; ch. 3 deals with the " care of the teeth, mouth, tongue, ear and sinus"; ch. 4, care of the nose; ch. 5, of the eye; ch. 6 and 7, of the digestive organs; ch. 8, of the respiratory apparatus, ch. 9, of the sexual organs; ch. 10, of the brain and nervous system; ch. 11, of the skin. The last chapter deals with hygiene in general.