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in a healing relationship with consequences that are mutually benefi- cial.”^85 Åyurveda thus diverges from the position of clas ...

Chapter Two MEANINGS OF HEALTH INA ̄YURVEDA In Western philosophy of medicine, inquiries into health tend to focus more on the m ...

as a program of health maintenance, my task here is not to evaluate the soundness of Åyurvedic medical theory. Rather, I follow ...

Biological and ecological Medical and psychological Sociocultural and aesthetic Metaphysical and religious The four categories ...

Chopra extends as possible through Åyurveda. Working from the Vedic premise that intelligence is the basic force underlying all ...

of health, and point out some of the tensions inherent in embodied human life as revealed through the window of health. An insta ...

Health and disease on this interpretation are employed as scientific con- cepts, not normative ones, despite the fact that, in g ...

death. Longevity means long life, and connotes living to great age with vitality. In Hindu medicine, life and longevity are cent ...

Taoist idea of enlightenment as living and dying in accord with nature’s simplicity grounds the notion of healthy death. Chuang ...

Etiological theory employing the explanatory principle of deviation from the proper proportions of the doÓsas. Therapeutic meas ...

disorders (e.g., abnormal blood glucose levels may indicate hypoglycemia or diabetes). The pharmaceutical treatment of illness e ...

comodating of impinging forces. Jozsef Kovács characterizes a healthy relationship between organism and environment as “a dynami ...

Åyurveda demonstrates that the medical use of the concept of adap- tation has been operative from ancient times. Zimmermann tran ...

Non-susceptibility is a determinant of health in that an organism’s resis- tance to infectious or other threatening agents signa ...

The excellent essence of the dh ̄atusbeginning with rasa (chyle) and end- ing with semen ( ́sukra) or ova and blood ( ́soÓnita) ...

The Caraka-samhitÓ ̄alists the following determinants of normality as cri- teria for determining whether a cure has been effecte ...

give,’ e.g., to give support). Disturbance of the dhatus’ ̄ equilibrium is co- extensive with states of compromised health. In d ...

body, sleeplessness, sticky stools and saliva, swelling in the body, aches and pains, etc.”^44 Daniel C. Tabor reports the expla ...

Åyurveda classifies diseases as exogenous(caused by external factors, such as fire), and endogenous(caused by impairment of the ...

a determinant of health: awareness is both a determinant of health and a resource for protecting and improving one’s health. In ...