Medicine and Martial Arts in South India
by
Roman Sieler
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Lethal Spots, Vital Secrets provides an ethnographic study of varmakkalai, or "the art of the vital spots," a South Indian esoteric tradition that combines medical practice and martial arts. Although siddha medicine is officially part of the Indian Government's medically pluralistic health-care system,...