Hindu Medicine c7.70

c7.70

These main themes reappear again and again; with their variations and repetitions, they form the structure of the elaborate score of the charm. The insistence in the refrain is intended to praise and invoke the divine personalities of the herbs; at the same time it is meant to operate along the lines of psycho-somatic treatment as a suggestive stimulus to the patient's will to recover. The varied formulae act as so many comforting, reassuring compulsions on the patient, affording every possible help to his ailing organism.