Hindu Medicine c8.160

c8.160

This applies also to the speculations concerning the tubular system of the body which is said to be centered around the heart or the navel. Such a concept is the visualization of archaic physiological experience, guided by speculative ideas, rationalized and systematized through geometrical symmetry and correspondence of numbers, and expressed on the anatomical plane. It is a kind of theoretical interpretation or sophisticated superstructure, covering introspective intuitions.