Hindu Medicine c8.159

c8.159

It is more than sheer ignorance of what modern man considers the “real” functioning of certain vital parts of the human organism that shaped the archaic conceptions of Hindu medicine differently from the findings of the science of today. Primitive psychology and physiology, working introspectively and intuitively, also have their share in these concepts. Though seemingly clad in rationalistic language, these concepts are meant to be read as a pictorial script. In anatomical terminology they describe inner sensations which were visualized again and again until they became a classical pattern satisfying common experience.