| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| Author | Joseph Alter |
| Place | Princeton N.J. |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press |
| Date | 2004 |
| ISBN | 9780691118734 |
| Short Title | Yoga in modern India |
| Library Catalog | Open WorldCat |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Type | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author | S Bhobe |
| Publication | The Nursing Journal of India |
| Volume | 91 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 33, 42 |
| Date | Feb 2000 |
| Journal Abbr | Nurs J India |
| ISSN | 0029-6503 |
| URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/15326755 |
| Accessed | Mon Nov 9 00:44:45 2009 |
| Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
| Extra | PMID: 15326755 |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Modified | Thu Nov 3 09:15:47 2011 |
Yoga is a science of Holistic living and not merely a set of Asanas and Pranayama. It is a psycho physical and spiritual science, which aims at the harmonious development of the human body, mind and soul. Yoga is the conscious art of self-discovery. It is a process by which animal man ascends through the stages from normal man to super man and then the divine man. It is an expansion of the narrow constricted egoistic personality to an all-pervasive eternal and blissful state of reality. Yoga is an all round development of personality at physical, mental intellectual, emotional and spiritual level.
| Type | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author | Lori A. Brotto |
| Author | Lisa Mehak |
| Author | Cassandra Kit |
| Abstract | Yoga is an ancient practice with Eastern roots that involves both physical postures (asanas) and breathing techniques (pranayamas). There is also a cognitive component focusing on meditation and concentration, which aids in achieving the goal of union between the self and the spiritual. Although numerous empirical studies have found a beneficial effect of yoga on different aspects of physical and psychological functioning, claims of yoga's beneficial effects on sexuality derive from a rich but nonempirical literature. The goal of this article is to review the philosophy and forms of yoga, to review the nonempirical and (limited) empirical literatures linking yoga with enhanced sexuality, and to propose some future research avenues focusinging on yoga as a treatment for sexual complaints. |
| Publication | Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 378-390 |
| Date | October 2009 |
| DOI | 10.1080/00926230903065955 |
| ISSN | 0092623X |
| Short Title | Yoga and Sexual Functioning |
| URL | http://search.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.bu.edu/login.aspx? direct=true&db=pbh&AN=44032289&… |
| Accessed | Thu Oct 22 13:11:56 2009 |
| Library Catalog | EBSCOhost |
| Date Added | Thu Sep 29 09:04:55 2011 |
| Modified | Thu Sep 29 09:04:55 2011 |
| Type | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author | Arvind Chopra |
| Author | Vijay V Doiphode |
| Publication | The Medical Clinics of North America |
| Volume | 86 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 75-89, vii |
| Date | Jan 2002 |
| Journal Abbr | Med. Clin. North Am |
| ISSN | 0025-7125 |
| URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/11795092 |
| Accessed | Mon Nov 2 02:39:34 2009 |
| Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
| Extra | PMID: 11795092 |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Modified | Thu Nov 3 09:16:10 2011 |
In the prebiblical Ayurvedic origins, every creation inclusive of a human being is a model of the universe. In this model, the basic matter and the dynamic forces (Dosha) of the nature determine health and disease, and the medicinal value of any substance (plant and mineral). The Ayurvedic practices (chiefly that of diet, life style, and the Panchkarama) aim to maintain the Dosha equilibrium. Despite a holistic approach aimed to cure disease, therapy is customized to the individual's constitution (Prakruti). Numerous Ayurvedic medicines (plant derived in particular) have been tested for their biological (especially immunomodulation) and clinical potential using modern ethnovalidation, and thereby setting an interface with modern medicine. To understand Ayurvedic medicine, it would be necessary to first understand the origin, basic concept and principles of Ayurveda.
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| Author | Harold Coward |
| Place | Albany |
| Publisher | State University of New York Press |
| Date | 2002 |
| ISBN | 9780791454992 |
| Short Title | Yoga and psychology |
| Library Catalog | Open WorldCat |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| Author | Assa Doron |
| Place | London |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Date | 2009 |
| ISBN | 9780415556095 |
| Date Added | Thu Sep 29 09:02:29 2011 |
| Modified | Thu Sep 29 09:02:29 2011 |
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| Author | Fabrizio Ferrari |
| Series | Routledge South Asian Religion Series |
| Edition | 1 |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Date | 2010-06-15 |
| ISBN | 0415561450 |
| Short Title | Health and Religious Rituals in South Asia |
| Library Catalog | Amazon.com |
| Date Added | Thu Sep 29 09:04:35 2011 |
| Modified | Thu Sep 29 09:04:35 2011 |
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| Author | Gregory P Fields |
| Series | SUNY series in religious studies |
| Place | Albany |
| Publisher | State University of New York |
| Date | 2001 |
| ISBN | 0791449157 |
| Short Title | Religious Therapeutics |
| Library Catalog | library.bu.edu Library Catalog |
| Call Number | R606 .F53 2001 |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
Religious Therapeutics explores the relationship between psychophysical health and spiritual health and presents a model for interpreting connections between religion and medicine in world traditions. This model emerges from the work’s investigation of health and religiousness in classical Yoga, Ayurveda, and Tantra--three Hindu traditions noteworthy for the central role they accord the body. Author Gregory P. Fields compares Anglo-European and Indian philosophies of body and health and uses fifteen determinants of health excavated from texts of ancient Hindu medicine to show that health concerns the person, not the body or body/mind alone. This book elucidates multifaceted views of health, and--in the context of spirituality and healing--explores themes such as mental health, meditation, and music.
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| Author | David Frawley |
| Place | Salt Lake City, Utah |
| Publisher | Passage Press |
| Date | 1989 |
| ISBN | 1878423002 |
| Short Title | Ayurvedic Healing |
| Library Catalog | library.bu.edu Library Catalog |
| Call Number | WB 50 JI4 F8a 1989 |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
The immensity of Ayurvedic material and the preexisting vitriol for any attempt at studying it are enough of a deterrent for anyone who wishes to make their mark on the academic community. Yet David Frawley has made a valiant effort with Ayurvedic Healing. Frawley’s presentation is solid, coherent, and contributive to the greater knowledge base both in religious studies and medicine. While topics such as astrology and gem therapy are so very difficult to present in the mainstream, these aspects of spiritual healing are simply part of the system; one cannot pick and choose parts when studying a whole. Therefore, even with the shortfalls of Frawley’s work, the underlying integral philosophy and suggestions for a new paradigm of medicine are paramount to progress in the field of spirituality, medicine, and health. In all, it is a very effective introduction to a subject that warrants more scholarly eyes.
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| Author | Birgit Heyn |
| Edition | 1st Quality Paperback Ed |
| Publisher | Healing Arts Press |
| Date | 1990-04-01 |
| ISBN | 0892813334 |
| Short Title | Ayurveda |
| Library Catalog | Amazon.com |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Type | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author | V Lad |
| Publication | Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 57-63 |
| Date | Jul 1995 |
| Journal Abbr | Altern Ther Health Med |
| ISSN | 1078-6791 |
| URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/9419799 |
| Accessed | Mon Nov 2 02:45:22 2009 |
| Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
| Extra | PMID: 9419799 |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Modified | Thu Nov 3 09:17:23 2011 |
Ayurveda is a Sanskrit word derived from two roots: ayur, which means life, and veda, knowledge. Knowledge arranged systematically with logic becomes science. During the due course of time, Ayurveda became the science of life. It has its root in ancient vedic literature and encompasses our entire life, the body, mind, and spirit.
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| Author | Rammurti S Mishra |
| Edition | 1987 ed |
| Place | New York, N.Y |
| Publisher | Harmony Books |
| Date | 1987 |
| ISBN | 051756422X |
| Short Title | Fundamentals of Yoga |
| Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
| Call Number | B132.Y6 M5 1987 |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
Dr. Mishra brings a medical reasoning and a guru’s practice to the ancient science of yoga. Concentration and meditation exercises make this an invaluable introduction to yoga.
| Type | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author | A R Murthy |
| Publication | Bulletin of the Indian Institute of History of Medicine (Hyderabad) |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-14 |
| Date | Jan 1997 |
| Journal Abbr | Bull Indian Inst Hist Med Hyderabad |
| ISSN | 0304-9558 |
| Short Title | Dhanwantari |
| URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/12572586 |
| Accessed | Mon Nov 9 01:06:57 2009 |
| Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
| Extra | PMID: 12572586 |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Modified | Thu Nov 3 09:23:38 2011 |
The original conception of Ayurveda in its entirety is essentially linked to Dhanwantari who is considered as God of Hindu Medicine. Dhanwantari is considered a mythical deity born with ambrosia in one hand and Ayurveda on the other at the end of the churning of milk ocean. He reincarnated himself in the Chandra dynasty. He was born to King Dhanwa, learnt Ayurveda from Bharadwaja. His great grandson Divodasa was also known as Dhanwantari, but was specialised only in surgical branch of Ayurveda. Sushruta, is said to have learnt the art of science of surgery from Divodasa Dhanwantara.
| Type | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author | T Naidoo |
| Publication | Medicine and Law |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 643-647 |
| Date | 1989 |
| Journal Abbr | Med Law |
| ISSN | 0723-1393 |
| URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/2495404 |
| Accessed | Mon Nov 9 00:47:04 2009 |
| Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
| Extra | PMID: 2495404 |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Modified | Thu Nov 3 09:23:57 2011 |
In the Hindu tradition, ‘health’ means the continued maintenance of the best possible working of the human body under normal, and sometimes even abnormal, environmental conditions. Hindu religious teaching on healthy living and ethical considerations culminate in spiritual objectives if the injunctions contained in the system are followed. Hatha yoga is a system of bodily care that is conducive to such health, which also corrects disease via the regulation of muscular action and in other ways. Other systems of medicine, such as Ayurveda and other traditional systems in Hindu culture, have been devised for the good of humanity. It is, however, the holistic approach to health in Hinduism that calls attention to such causes of ill health as climatic extremes, bacterial attack, nutritional deviance, stress, and other forms of emotional imbalance. A state of good health is within the reach of most persons if they cultivate habits that are conducive to physical and spiritual well-being. The concept of preventive medicine is probably also based on the tenet that the attainment of good health is a religious duty, and corresponding injunctions are found in abundance in Hindu scriptures. It is not the training of students in the medical profession that is most important for health care, but rather their concern for health and their willingness to apply themselves to the observation of the rules they would wish their patients to observe.
| Type | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author | Ala Narayana |
| Author | G S Lavekar |
| Publication | Bulletin of the Indian Institute of History of Medicine (Hyderabad) |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 131-146 |
| Date | 2005 Jul-Dec |
| Journal Abbr | Bull Indian Inst Hist Med Hyderabad |
| ISSN | 0304-9558 |
| URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/17333669 |
| Accessed | Mon Nov 2 02:27:55 2009 |
| Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
| Extra | PMID: 17333669 |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Modified | Sun Nov 13 21:30:46 2011 |
The Pali canon consists of three Pitakas (baskets), which replete the Buddhism and is known as Tripitaka, viz, Vinaya, Sutta and Abhidhamma Pitakas. The original phase of Tripitaka (Buddhisim started in 544 B.C. and lastly systematized up to 29 B.C. The Buddhist literature also possesses the esoteric material of Medical Science, which is practiced and conserved in India since centuries. It refers to the fundamentals of medicine, rules of good living, which lay considerable emphasis on the hygiene of body, mind. Internal Medicine, curative medicine including symptoms, methods of diagnosis, theories of causation, materia-medica, therapeutics and treatment and skills of Jivaka. Some famous and popular prescriptions are also dealt with.
| Type | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author | P Pandikumar |
| Author | M Chellappandian |
| Author | S Mutheeswaran |
| Author | S Ignacimuthu |
| Abstract | AIM OF THE STUDY The role of ethnobotany in drug discovery is huge but there are criticisms over such studies due to their qualitative nature. The present study is aimed at quantitatively abstracting the medicinal plant knowledge of the healers trained in traditional ways, in Mayiladumparai block of Theni District, Tamil Nadu, India. MATERIALS AND METHODS The interviews and field observations were carried out in all the 18 village panchayaths from January to June 2010, consisting of 148 field days. The interviews were conducted with 80 traditional healers, after obtaining prior informed consent. Successive free listing was used to interview the informants. The informant consensus factor (F(ic)) was calculated to estimate the use variability of medicinal plants. Fidelity index and Cultural importance index were also calculated to analyze the data. RESULTS This study recorded the ethno-medicinal usage of 142 ethno-species belonging to 62 families that were used to prepare 504 formulations. Jaundice had the highest F(ic) value than all the illness categories studied. Phyllanthus spp. was the highly cited medicinal plant to treat jaundice and had high fidelity index value. This was followed by Senna angustifolia and Terminalia chebula as laxatives. The highly cited medicinal plants in each group with high F(ic) value were Pongamia pinnata (antiseptic), Aerva lanata (antidote and snakebite), Blepharis maderaspatensis (cuts and wounds), Abutilon indicum (hemorrhoids), Ruta graveolens (spiritual medicine), Ocimum tenuiflorum (cough), and Solanum trilobatum (pulmonary ailments). Phyllanthus spp., was the most culturally significant species according to this index, followed by Borassus flebellifer. CONCLUSION The process of drug discovery has become highly expensive and post-approval and post-marketing withdrawal of drugs is continuing. In such scenario, reverse pharmacology is considered an attractive option. The medicinal plants enumerated in this study with high number of citations and high F(ic) values for illness categories might give some useful leads for further biomedical research. |
| Publication | Journal of Ethnopharmacology |
| Volume | 134 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 354-362 |
| Date | Mar 24, 2011 |
| Journal Abbr | J Ethnopharmacol |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.jep.2010.12.027 |
| ISSN | 1872-7573 |
| URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21193023 |
| Accessed | Mon Apr 4 19:48:36 2011 |
| Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
| Extra | PMID: 21193023 |
| Date Added | Thu Sep 29 08:56:31 2011 |
| Modified | Thu Sep 29 08:56:31 2011 |
| Type | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author | L E Thomas |
| Publication | Social Science & Medicine (1982) |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 499-505 |
| Date | Mar 1992 |
| Journal Abbr | Soc Sci Med |
| ISSN | 0277-9536 |
| Short Title | Identity, ideology and medicine |
| URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/1604356 |
| Accessed | Mon Nov 9 00:47:41 2009 |
| Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
| Extra | PMID: 1604356 |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Modified | Sun Nov 13 21:31:50 2011 |
In-depth interviews and participant observation was conducted with 14 Hindu religious renunciates, 70 years or older. Despite having taken vows renouncing concern for physical pain or comfort, respondents differed markedly in their attitudes toward pain and their rationale for utilizing medical treatment. They differed still further in their use of Ayurvedic and allopathic medicine, with the most culturally conservative accepting only Ayurvedic medicine. Rejection of allopathic medicine tended to be associated with a highly systematized religious world-view. The results are discussed in terms of both the ideological conflict between religious world-view and medical usage, and the need for sophisticated distinction of religious world-view if research on the religious factor of health care utilization is to prove fruitful.
| Type | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author | Robin L. Wilson |
| Publication | The American Journal of Nursing |
| Volume | 76 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 261-263 |
| Date | Feb., 1976 |
| ISSN | 0002936X |
| URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/3423818 |
| Accessed | Sun Nov 8 23:05:28 2009 |
| Library Catalog | JSTOR |
| Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Feb., 1976 / Copyright © 1976 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. |
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| Modified | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| Author | Kenneth G Zysk |
| Place | New York |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Date | 1991 |
| ISBN | 0195059565 |
| Short Title | Asceticism and Healing in Ancient India |
| Library Catalog | library.bu.edu Library Catalog |
| Call Number | R605 .Z87 1991 |
| Date Added | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
| Modified | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
The rich Indian medical tradition is usually traced back to Sanskrit sources, the earliest of which cannot much antedate the common era. Zysk shows that the Buddhist scriptures some centuries older than this contain abundant information about medical practice, and are our earliest evidence for a rational approach to medicine in India. He argues that Buddhism and the medical tradition were mutually supportive: that Buddhist monks and people associated with them contributed to the development of medicine, while their skills as physical as well as spiritual healers enhanced their reputation and popular support. Drawing on a wide range of textual, archaeological, and secondary sources, Zysk first presents an overview of the history of Indian medicine in its religious context. He then examines primary literature from the Pali Buddhist Canon and from the Sanskrit treatises of Bhela, Caraka, and Susruta. By close comparison of these two bodies of literature Zysk convincingly shows how the theories delineated in the medical classics actually became practice.