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Sam — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 05:16:45 +0000

Encyclopedia of Indian Medicine

Author: Saligrama Krishna Ramachandra Rao, S. R. Sudarshan, Dr. V. Parameshvara Charitable Trust
Publisher: Popular Prakashan, 2005
ISBN 8171548628, 9788171548620

About this book:

This is an encyclopedia of Ayurveda based on references from many ancient texts like Sushruta Samita, Charaka Samita, Dhanvantari Nighantu, and later publications of ayurveda.

Hypnosis and hypnotheraphy difference

Sam — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 13:06:24 +0000

What is the difference between hypnosis and hypnotherapy?

A common misconception that has been around is that hypnosis and hypnotherapy are one and the same. They are not. The primary differences are:

Hypnosis has been existent since time immemorial. Since the time people knew the experience of the state of trance. Hypnotherapy is relatively new, just like many other therapy like talking therapy, etc.
The goal of hypnotherapy is to help one achieve a goal, or solve a problem, or bring about a positive change in one’s personality.
Many people know about hypnosis from stage shows and movies that portrays hypnotism as a kind of black magic to control someone to make him or do anything that they want. And that’s portrayed by making someone cry or laugh. Hypnotherapy is much more than making someone to cry or laugh, with a willingness to achieve a desired goal.

Sushruta Samhita download

Sam — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 15:29:19 +0000

Sushrutha Samhita is a compilation of the ayurvedic treatments and surgery practiced by the great India surgeon Susrutha. Here is a three part text version of an english translation of the Samhita.

Download sushrutha Samhita English Version

How Hypnosis helps healing

Sam — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 19:18:11 +0000

Its life that can control so much. A dead body just goes on decaying without recovery. That’s called catabolism(breakng down). But when a person is alive, the catabolism is accompanied by anabolism(building up), and makes it possible for life to sustain. A living entity can create complicated substances required by its body from basic substances.

For instance, neither the soil, nor the air, nor the water has citric acid. But an orange tree takes in water from the soil, carbon dioxide from the air, and energy from sun, and can create the citric acid available in orange. But a dead tree can’t do that, probably because its lacking that “spark of life”.

Similarly, this life spark should be able to create the most appropriate “medicine” required by our body if the raw materials(food, water, oxygen, sunlight) are available. And since this life spark(the conscious entity) interacts with the body through the mind/brain, a healthy body coexists with a healthy mind. Maybe thats how things like hypnosis, meditation, mantra healing, etc works to restore psychosomatic disorders.