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The jungle and the aroma of meats: An ecological theme in Hindu medicine
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In classical Ayurvedic medicine, the jungle is the dry land of the Punjab and the Delhi Doab, an open vegetation of thorny shrubs. The polarity of dry lands and wet lands framed not only the whole Ayurvedic materia medica, but also the more general conception of a cosmic physiology governed by Agni (the sun) and Soma (the dispenser of the rain). Clearing the land and draining the body were two aspects of one and the same art of managing the transactions of all sorts of vital fluids, saps, juices, savors and humors. Medicine in the context of thought and practice associated with the jungle was, and still is in modern India, a kind of agriculture.
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- Authors
- Zimmermann, F.
- Affiliations
- École des hautes études en sciences sociales (FR)
- Corresponding author
- Zimmermann, Francis
- Venue
- Social Science & Medicine
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1988-01
- Volume
- 27
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 197-206
- ISSN
- 0277-9536 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2040898643
- Cited by
- 223
- References
- 5
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 2 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 18 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 6 · 2018: 20 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 7 · 2015: 7 · 2014: 2 · 2013: 16 · 2012: 3
- FWCI
- 6.47
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
- Locations
- Social Science & Medicine (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National IT Industry Promotion Agency
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Complementary and alternative medicine › Traditional Chinese Medicine Studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › History of Medicine Studies
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Plant Science › Plant Names and Ethnobotany
- Keywords
- Ayurveda, Hindu medicine, jungle, arid regions, Punjab, Agni, soma, materia medica, humor, land clearing
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Anthropology, Cultural, Ecology, Humans, Meat, Medicine, Ayurvedic, Metaphysics, Sensation
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