To a remarkable extent, the noted
scholar regained in 45 days his health, strength, memory, normal
eyesight; indications of a third set of teeth appeared, while all
wrinkles vanished. The herbal treatment, known as KAYA KALPA, is
one of 80 rejuvenation methods outlined in Hindu AYURVEDA or medical
science. Pundit Malaviya underwent the treatment at the hands of
Sri Kalpacharya Swami Beshundasji, who claims 1766 as his birth
year. He possesses documents proving him to be more than 100 years
old; ASSOCIATED PRESS reporters remarked that he looked about 40.
Ancient Hindu treatises divided medical science into 8 branches:
SALYA (surgery); SALAKYA (diseases above the neck); KAYACHIKITSA
(medicine proper); BHUTAVIDYA (mental diseases); KAUMARA (care
of infancy); AGADA (toxicology); RASAYANA (longevity); VAGIKARANA
(tonics). Vedic physicians used delicate surgical instruments,
employed plastic surgery, understood medical methods to counteract
the effects of poison gas, performed Caesarean sections and brain
operations, were skilled in dynamization of drugs. Hippocrates,
famous physician of the 5th century B.C., borrowed much of his
materia medica from Hindu sources.
{FN35-19} The East Indian margosa tree. Its medicinal values have
now become recognized in the West, where the bitter NEEM bark is
used as a tonic, and the oil from seeds and fruit has been found
of utmost worth in the treatment of leprosy and other diseases.
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