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FUNCTIONS OF VATA (BASED ON CHARAKA) A Passage from Vaatkalaakaleeyam
1Trivedinagar, Hathras, U. P. India.
Abstract:
The author has chosen 12(th) Chapter from the Sutra Sthana of this great epic containing 12,000 verses and passages which is replete with materials to revive the whole art of healing even if the whole medical literatures is lost. The passage puts in a nutshell the key role played by Vayu / Vata in the working of the tantra and yantra of the body. Though exploration of the humours is yet to be done by modern physiologists to explain the Ayurvedic Vata which is responsible to no less than 18 functions of the normal body mechanism.
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