1/25/2005

Ayurveda

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Ayurveda

***** Location: India
***** Season: Topic for haiku
***** Category: Humanity


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Explanation

Ayurveda (Devanagari: आयुर्वेद ) or Ayurvedic medicine
is an ancient system of health care that is native to the Indian subcontinent. It is presently in daily use by millions of people in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and indirectly through it being the major influence on Unani, Chinese and Tibetan Medicine, in China, Tibet, and Pakistan too.

The word "Ayurveda" is a tatpurusha compound of the word āyus meaning "life" or "life principle", and the word veda, which refers to a system of "knowledge". Thus "Ayurveda" roughly translates as the "knowledge of life".

According to Charaka Samhita, "life" itself is defined as the "combination of the body, sense organs, mind and soul, the factor responsible for preventing decay and death, which sustains the body over time, and guides the processes of rebirth".

According to this perspective, Ayurveda is concerned with measures to protect "ayus", which includes healthy living along with therapeutic measures that relate to physical, mental, social and spiritual harmony. Ayurveda is also one among the few traditional systems of medicine to contain a sophisticated system of surgery (which is referred to as "salya-chikitsa").

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Panchakarma and Ayurvedic Massage



Herbal massage is a kind of treatment in this medical system.


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HAIKU


herbal massage-
I inhale the warm breath
she exhales


--Kala Ramesh
http://tinywords.com/haiku/2007/07/24
First appeared: Frogpond- XXVIII:3 - page 7


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ayurveda -
the healing power
of his gentle voice


Gabi Greve, India 1977

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1 comment:

anonymous said...

Vedic chants . . .
a heron glides to a rock
in the misty lake

Kala Ramesh

in Montage #24 , THF
http://thehaikufoundation.org/2009/08/17/montage-24/