Mudpacks and Prozac Experiencing Ayurvedic, Biomedical, and Religious Healing

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Trivandrum, 22, 39n12; neighborhoods
in, 81–82; searching for housing
in, 27

Ummachi (female Muslim saint), 76,
78, 133. See also Beemapalli
mosque
unmāda rog (mental illness). See mental
illness
Upadeśa Sāhasrī, 143
Urus festival, 80

Vaidyanathan, T. G., 28
vaidyans (ayurvedic practitioner), 45,
58, 85, 189. See also ayurvedic
practitioner
vaiśesika (Hindu school of
philosophy), 44
Van Hollen, Cecilia, 167, 179, 198–99
Varier, Vaidyaratnam P. S., 60
vata (wind), 46
Vedānta. See philosophy, Indian
Vettucaud church, 35, 66–67, 81;
author’s experience visiting,
82–83; counseling at, 83–84;

history of, 82; prayer at, 83,

183–84

violence, 107–9

Virchow, Rudolf, 201

virechana (ayurvedic purgative

treatment), 52

vishamam (sadness/depression),

112–13, 115

Western medicine. See allopathic

medicines; allopathic treatment;

allopathy

Whorf, Benjamin Lee, 189

Wilce, James, 39n21

work discipline, clock-time, 199

worker’s movements, 115

World Health Organization, 20, 31,

39n11, 201

World Trade Organization, 64, 89n21

yoga, 44. See also philosophy, Indian

Young, Allan, 55

Young, James C., 21

Zimmerman, Francis, 15, 46, 48, 180