Марма-массаж, аюрведическая рефлексотерпия и акупунктура (Страница 1 из 3)

There exists a fashion in complementary health circles dating from the late twentieth century of reinterpreting marmans as points for therapeutic attention, as though they were an Indian analogue to Chinese acupuncture or moxa points. Popular literature on this subject has typically asserted that this practice can be found in lost ayurvedic source texts (Thatte et al. 1988; Ros 1994). This has no historical foundation. The appeals made to lost texts or unknown parts of ayurvedic literature have now been conclusively quashed by the completion and publication in 2002 of Meulenbeld’s massive History of Indian Medical Literature that surveys the whole of ayurvedic literature comprehensively. In Sanskrit ayurvedic literature, on the contrary, marman points are repeatedly described as points that the physician should avoid damaging at all costs, since they are lethal (Wujastyk 2003, 242–44). They may be pressed, punched, stabbed or kicked if the goal is to harm an opponent in martial combat (Zarrilli 1998).

The cakras make no appearance whatsoever in ayurveda, the classical medicine of India. Not withstanding the contemporary growth of various forms of massage and therapy focussed on the cakras, there is no such theme in the classical Sanskrit literature on medicine. The cakras really are an idea specific to tantra and yoga, and it is not until relatively recent times that this idea has been synthesized with medical thought and practice.

возможно вы столкнулись с варма-массажем тамильской сиддха медицины. он болезненный, интенсивный,  по точкам, без масла

They may be pressed, punched, stabbed or kicked if the goal is to harm an opponent in martial combat (Zarrilli 1998).