Hindu Medicine c8.95

c8.95

Gustave Flaubert, in his satirical novel *Bouvard et Pécuchet*, enjoying a jest at the expense of contemporary medicine, points out: "la physiologie c'est le roman de la médecine." Hindu physiology unfolds like a spectacular romance of the three humors, with their quarrels and appeasements, aggressions and defeats. This triad is able to collaborate, thanks to the dissimilar nature of its members. 'The wind is dry, light, cool and possessed of motion; the bile is hot, sharp and liquid; the phlegm is mild, cool, heavy and slow; each has its own share and its proper task in the maintenance of the body. As long as they hold one another in check through a proper balance, all is well; the life-process and all the activities of the metabolism go on smoothly'.