Greatness of Siddha Medicine

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Siddhars and Maharishis who had spent all their lives in meditation in secluded forests should be credited with a com- plete knowledge of the human body far better than anybody else. They have presented to the world a most wonderful record of their work and observation that are the objects of study even to-day by some of the greatest men of the West who have been gathering points for their own use, at any rate to a certain extent.

There are in our body several supports to the soul for the existence and continuation of this life; and these supports are closely connected by Prana. Siddhars attach much more impor- tance to this Prana which is the Life Principle of the Universe absorbed and specialised by every human being.

This subject is no doubt as interesting as it is intricate; and a careful study of Tamil Siddhars' science is bound to en- lighten the minds of the people, as to the excellence, accuracy and profundity of this science of pulse. It was only in Siddhars' time that this science had reached perfection.

The medical treatises by these sages contain so many honestly recorded factors, simple, short and perspicuous that they have been justly estimated as the most practically useful and valuable acquisitions to Medical science.

It is a science peculiar to the Siddhars' system of Medi- cine; and as such it was translated in the Tantric literature, in which alone a proper delineation of this subject is to be found. It is in the age of Tantric literature that a large body of Ayurvedic physicians came to know of it and its secrets and used it to diagnose all kinds of diseases.

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