Hindu Medicine c8.80
Hindu Medicine c8.80
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c8.80
The doctrine of the human body, as well as the greater part of diagnosis and therapy, in classic Hindu medicine, are based on the concept of certain principal constituents or elementary substances (dhātu, doṣa) which pervade the organism and maintain its functioning. In nature and function these are akin to the "humors" in Greek medicine.