Etiology, 18, 28–29, 39, 46, 53
and dualism, 159
Exercise, 106
Fasting, 61, 111
the Feminine
Yoga’s disvaluing of, 8, 139–40
Tantra’s valuing of, 8, 30, 139–40,
145
Flute, 160, 162, 165
Food, 41, 44, 115, 142, 169, 171.See
also Diet; Digestion
sattvic, rajasic, tamasic, 109–10
Food chain, 40, 44, 170
Four Aims of Life, 4, 38, 79
Freedom, 7, 9, 21, 24, 73, 77–78, 131,
134, 136–37
Gender, 31, 145. See alsothe Feminine
Generativity, 73–74
God, 12, 54, 70, 85, 90, 96, 100, 111,
- See also Sanskrit terms
index I ́svara
Good, in Yoga, 105–6
Grandmother Earth, 170. See also
Mother Earth
the Great health (Nietzsche), 82
the Great Vow (Indian ethics), 106
Greco-Latin science, 40
Greek Medicine. SeeMedicine,
Western
Habituation therapy, 56
Healing, 2, 5, 6, 18, 27, 64, 105,
116–17, 136–37, 171
religious, 168
with mantra, 155
Health, 3, 6–8, 21, 29, 45, 47–50, 64,
131, 133
̄Ayurvedic determinants of, 7, 9, 46–
47, 47–78
biological and ecological, 50–58
medical and psychological, 58–69
metaphysical and religious, 75–78
sociocultural and aesthetic, 69–75
as a positive state, 8, 45, 69
as a regulative concept, 49
as an ethical obligation, 107
as equilibrium, 76
as natural tendency, 172
as wholeness, 105
cultural, 68–69
descriptive concept of, 49
determinants of, 172–73
medical and spiritual, 21, 136–37
normative concept of, 49–50
psychological, 111, 141. See also
Psychology
soteriological role of, 6–7, 111–12
spiritual, 1, 21, 137
systems-theory of, 54
Herbal medicine, 38–39, 61. See also
Plants: medicinal
Holism, 4, 63–65, 134–36, 139, 173
Holy Wind (Navajo), 160
Homeostasis, 58
Hózhó(Navajo: ‘well-being,’ etc.), 160
Hsiao-yao-yu(Chinese: ‘free and easy
wandering’), 141
Huang Ti Nei Ching Su Wên(Chinese
medical text), 41
Human potential, 7, 22, 25
Humors, 17–18, 44, 60. See also San-
skrit terms index DoÓsa–s
Hygiene, 40–41, 80, 103, 106Iconography, 31, 142
Ignorance, 101, 105. See also Sanskrit
terms index Kle ́sa-s
Illness, 65, 66, 103, 122–23, 130–31,
136–37
as generating karma, 108
metaphysical, 68, 94, 100, 105
Immune function, 20, 107, 159
Immunity, 56–58, 137
and music, 159
Immunocompetence, 20
Indigenous American traditions. See
American Indian traditions
Individuation, 64
Indus Valley civilization, 31
Inspiration, 160
Integration, 31, 63, 65–66, 122–23,
128, 130–31, 134–35, 137204 subject index