Summary
Love, happiness, and disease. These are a few things that today we call “contagious.” But how did thinkers in the Indian subcontinent, before the discovery of viruses, understand diseases and their treatment? This podcast is part two of a two-part interview with Patricia Sauthoff, an expert in the history of alchemy and medicine in India.
Sources and links
Dominik Wujastyk, The Roots of Ayurveda
Caraka Samhita online
Patricia Sauthoff is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Alberta with the The AyurYog project.
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