Hindu Medicine c5.s3.106

c5.s3.106

Death, who in Hindu mythology is a female figure. Her daughter is Decrepitude. Among the means for warding off this powerful daughter of Mother Death, Puranic popular medicine prescribes exercise, walking in the spring season, occasional intercourse with a young girl, regularity in diet, anointing the head and the soles of the feet with oil, covering the body with cooling sandal paste against the heat of the sun, avoiding exposure to the rains, and to the sun in autumn, warm baths in summer, and so forth.