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Concepts of body constitution in traditional Siddha texts: A literature review

Analysis of body constitution has been in practice in most complementary and alternative systems of medicine. Siddha system of medicine practiced in South India consists of fundamental classical literature that stress on the importance of tri-humoral makeup of individuals. Guidance has been given in...

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Autores principales: Muthiah, Kannan, Ganesan, Kiruthiga, Ponnaiah, Manickam, Parameswaran, Sathiyarajeswaran
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6598809/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31138488
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaim.2019.04.002
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author Muthiah, Kannan
Ganesan, Kiruthiga
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description Analysis of body constitution has been in practice in most complementary and alternative systems of medicine. Siddha system of medicine practiced in South India consists of fundamental classical literature that stress on the importance of tri-humoral makeup of individuals. Guidance has been given in the classics for identifying specific types of body constitution, various dietary recommendations and disease susceptibility. In validating such important traditional fundamental aspects, analytical systematic literature framework is the first robust step. The present study has been conducted to provide an updated integrative framework of information about body constitution given in various Siddha literatures in quantitative systematic method by using Whittemore and Knafl's five stage approach. This descriptive account may be useful to construct a suitable questionnaire for Siddha based udaliyal assessment.
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spelling pubmed-65988092019-07-11 Concepts of body constitution in traditional Siddha texts: A literature review Muthiah, Kannan Ganesan, Kiruthiga Ponnaiah, Manickam Parameswaran, Sathiyarajeswaran J Ayurveda Integr Med Short Review Analysis of body constitution has been in practice in most complementary and alternative systems of medicine. Siddha system of medicine practiced in South India consists of fundamental classical literature that stress on the importance of tri-humoral makeup of individuals. Guidance has been given in the classics for identifying specific types of body constitution, various dietary recommendations and disease susceptibility. In validating such important traditional fundamental aspects, analytical systematic literature framework is the first robust step. The present study has been conducted to provide an updated integrative framework of information about body constitution given in various Siddha literatures in quantitative systematic method by using Whittemore and Knafl's five stage approach. This descriptive account may be useful to construct a suitable questionnaire for Siddha based udaliyal assessment. Elsevier 2019 2019-05-25 /pmc/articles/PMC6598809/ /pubmed/31138488 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaim.2019.04.002 Text en © 2019 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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