Ayurveda vs Marma - What's the difference?
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Traditional Hindu alternative medicine, involving balancing three bodily humours of wind, bile, and phlegm.
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, year = 1788
, isbn =
, date =
, author = Asiatic Society of Bengal
, publisher = Manuel Cantopher
, location = Calcutta, India
, title = Asiatic researches or transactions of the Society instituted in Bengal, for inquiring into the history and antiquities, the arts, sciences, and literature, of Asia
, volume = 1
, url = http://books.google.com/books?id=AyhFAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA340
, page = 340
, chapter = XVIII
, passage = From these are deduced the four Upavédas'', namely, ''Ayush, Gándharva, Dhanush,'' and ''St'hápatya''; the first of which, or ''Ayurvéda'' , was delivered to mankind by Brahma', Indra, Dhanwantari, and ''five other Deities ; and comprizes the theory of Disorders and Medicines, with the practical methods of curing Diseases.
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