Traditional Indian Concepts of Nutrition: Toward an Integrative Approach

The Indian subcontinent abounds, as it were, with a variety and diversity of health traditions. It has perhaps the longest unbroken health tradition, which has not only a stream of practitioners but also textual and theoretical backing in terms of the Ayurvedic and Siddha systems of medicine (Balasubramanian and Radhika, 1989).

5.1 The Social Organization of Indigenous Health Traditions .............................69 5.2 Basic Terminologies ....................................................................................... 71