Ayurveda Isn’t What It Used to Be Views of an Indian Surgeon. Part 4
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Ancient Ayurvedists postulated that each bhuta in ingested foods and drugs augmented matching bhutas in bodily structures. They maintained that each part of one’s body is best nourished by substances whose qualities are similar to those of the part – for example, flesh by flesh, blood by blood, bones by cartilage, semen by semen, and fetuses by eggs.
Ayurveda Isn’t What It Used to Be Views of an Indian Surgeon. Part 3
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In a paper published in the Dec. 18, 1999, issue of The British Medical Journal, Leonard Leiboici correctly observed:
The deep model of alternative medicine is anthropocentric magic.