Hindu Medicine c7.63
Hindu Medicine c7.63
- Language
- English
c7.63
The demon disease, to be expelled from the patient's body through the magic ritual of which this hymn forms the oral part, is regarded as extremely powerful, since the whole array of the healing powers the vegetable kingdom has in store is conjured to fight him off. The term "Consumption," used in a rather vague but very comprehensive way, somehow seems to cover an anonymous collection of malignant forces which cause the ailing person to languish. Accordingly the doctor-magician calls upon the herbs and plants to furnish all possible aid.