Mudpacks and Prozac Experiencing Ayurvedic, Biomedical, and Religious Healing

index  227

79, 182–83; family involvement
in, 29, 34, 57, 61, 92; impact
of time pressure on, 15, 36, 55,
65, 195, 196–98; narratives of,
35; options for, 13, 41, 84–87,
201; pattern of seeking, 98;
pragmatism in seeking, 32,
81, 111, 117, 119; reasons for
changing, 109–10, 115–16, 175;
reasons for seeking, 12, 91, 99,
146; violence in, 74–75
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 18, 38n6
mind-body dualism, 14, 16, 35, 38n6,
139, 156
modern medicine. See allopathic
medicines; allopathic treatment;
allopathy
monism, 141
mosques. See Beemapalli mosque
mudpack treatment, medicated. See
talapodichil
Mullings, Leith, 21

Nabokov, Isabelle, 72, 76, 85
Nair, Sunitha B., 60
nalla lakshyam (goal), 12. See also under
ayurvedic treatment
Narayana Guru, Sree, 26
naturopathy, 87
Nayar caste, 26, 39n15
Nepal, healing in, 19
Nichter, Mark, 37n3, 168
Nordstrom, Carolyn, 168
Nunley, Michael, 61, 64, 130
nyāya (Hindu school of philosophy),
44, 144

Okiyama ( Japanese healing system),
116–17, 118–19
ōrmma (consciousness/memory), 14,
149–50. See also experience,
modes of
Osella, Caroline, 197

Osella, Filippo, 197

oxytocin drugs, 198–99

pain: in allopathic treatment, 12; in

ayurvedic treatment, 15; in China,

37n6; in religious rituals, 179; in

treatment for mental illness, 11

panchakarma therapy, 48, 52, 103, 202

Parry, Jonathan, 141

Patents (Amendment) Act, 2005, 64,

89n21

Patents Act, Indian, 64, 89n21

perception, modes of, 14. See also

experience, modes of

Persian Gulf: marriages, 128; migration

to, 24, 26, 115, 130, 133–34

personhood, 141

phenomenology, 12; defi nitions of, 17;

in relation to state process, 154;

local, 14, 35, 98–99, 127, 139–40,

141–42

philosophy, Indian, 30, 44, 49, 142–44

picchu (ayurvedic treatment), 52

pilgrimage, 11, 69

Pillai, P. Govinda, 26

pitta (bile), 46

place, attachment to, 114

pleasantness, in therapy, 20, 81, 103,

132, 160–61, 164; as resolution,

182. See also under ayurvedic
     treatment
     Pollock, Donald, 141
     Popper, Karl, 44
     possession, 69, 71; experience of, 73; of
     females, 73; rituals, 76
     Postrel, Virginia, 203
     privacy, 28
     psychiatry, biomedical. See allopathic
     medicines; allopathic treatment;
     allopathy
     psychologization, 37n6
     pujas (worships, ceremonies), 67, 69, 72,
     75, 76, 111, 186