Indian Accupuncture??????

[Guest guest]

In the old Siddha Medicine Tradition in south indian they know

everything about the vital points of the body. Their system were

called Varma nadi. According to Dr. S. Chidambarathana Pillai "Out of

Seventy two thousands of life-centres associated with the nerves of

the human physique, 108 life centres are important. proably they used

Acupuncture among other methods in this traditon. Unfortunately we

know by bitter experience that Dr. pillai is only in it for the

money. I don´t know of any living Authority of Varma Naadi.

 

In his book "The lost secrets of Ayurvedic Acupuncture" Dr Frank Ros

has attempted to translate Chinese Acupuncture with the ayurvedic

terms.

 

Regards

 

Cristian

 

ayurveda, "chotawa" <chotawa> wrote:

>

> I am just curious to why India had not developed accupunture,or

> anything similiar,since they had develeped the science of Ayurveda

> thousands of years ago.

> Just a question.

[Guest guest]

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi advised practitioners of his meditation to not

use accupumcture with needles, as it drains the subtle chi developed

over many meditaitons. A CHinese physician her in N. Florida does

the Japanese version which is called needleless - she uses the

needles above the body or sometimes just touching and says her

results are 10X that of the puncture.

 

Is not Marma therapy Ayurveda's accupressure, and the source of much

accupuncture meridian knowledge?

Martha

[Guest guest]

Dear Chotawa,

Accupuncture (or rather accupressure) is a procedure in which the

disturbed energy patterns of the body are sought to be restored.

The idea that there are certain points in the body which contain or

open the gates to the channels of energy in the body is the essence

here. As far as ayurveda is concerned a similar concept exists, only

that here instead of energy channels, the idea is that there are

certain points in the body which contain the life force. A

disturbance in this leads to various conditions resulting from death

to disability to pain. This points are called as marma and there is

a separate branch known as marma-chikitsa which specifically dea;s

with this. Unfortunately as you say this idea has not got as wide an

recognition as accupuncture or yoga. There are a variety of reasons

for this. One of the most prominent is that this being a practical

art, it was the first to go into oblivion when the decline of

ayurveda started in the dark ages. As was the case with ayurvedic

surgery. Now that ayurveda is getting world wide recognition once

again, more and more people are taking a more than academic interest

in this and once neglected treatment techniques like panchakarma,

ksharsutra, agnikarma, marma-chikitsa etc. are slowly but surely

being renewed. The spread in awareness about panchakarma is a case

in point. So it was not that a technique similar to accupuncture was

not developed in India but only that it had gone into oblivion and

is on the path to recovery.

[Guest guest]

Shortly after I posted this accupunture question,I came across a web

that was showing that it was practiced in Sri Lanka thousands of

years ago.

Though Maharishi Yogi has been discounted because of his carnal

desires for Mira Farrow,when she went to India with the Beatles.

 

> Maharishi Mahesh Yogi advised practitioners of his meditation to

> not use accupumcture with needles, as it drains the subtle chi