Hindu Medicine c8.122
Hindu Medicine c8.122
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c8.122
However, and this is one of the most interesting features of the Hindu doctrine of the body, the wind is in no way related to the lungs, nor are the lungs specifically related to the process of breathing. Instead, the lungs are considered the principal residing place of the watery substance in the body. It is in the chest, containing the lungs, that the humor phlegm stays, issuing, when disturbed, in the form of expectoration.