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2 juin 2023
- handle: 10670/1.552qhc
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nationalisme mariage religion mythologie monde rural économie renoncement Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary SOC000000 GTGSujets proches
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Francis Zimmermann, « Ṛtu – sātmya le cycle des saisons et le principe d’appropriation », Éditions de l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales, ID : 10670/1.552qhc
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The Ayurvedic treatises set forth two different cycles of the seasons. The one which includes śiśira. (The dewy season) is of distributive type. Every season has specific qualities antagonistic to the other ones. This provides the physician with a logical scheme according to which he may prescribe medicines compensating for an adverse excess. The other one which includes prāvṛṣ (the first rains) is of evolutive type. To the only three seasons effective in India – winter, summer, rains –, each one giving rise to a specific trouble – kapha, vāta, pitta –, three other ones are added which represent transitional phases. The medical treatment adapts itself to the course of time, improving the transient seasons – spring, first rains, autumn – which are the only ones fit for the pañcakarman therapy in nursing-homes.