Hindu Medicine c5.s3.85

c5.s3.85

Hindu medicine is based on the idea of a universal living force that pervades everything, the atoms of the elements as well as the higher organisms of men and animals. Whenever Western science has turned toward a monistic principle in order to counterbalance a drift toward over-specialization that threatens to atomize the whole of nature and to hide its broader aspects behind the vast masses of detail, it has met Hindu medicine half-way. At that moment Hindu lore with its semi-mythical method of intuitive speculation appears as a kind of early twilight that preceded the height of the scientific day. It seems to represent