Medical Anthropology Forum Cleansing the Body, Cleansing the Mind – Nomenclatures and Practices of Pancakarma Therapy in Classical Ayurveda and in Contemporary Europe
- Termin in der Vergangenheit
- Dienstag, 23. Juli 2024, 17:15 - 18:45 Uhr
- Südasien-Institut, Gebäude 4130, Raum 010.01.05, Voßstraße 2, 69115 Heidelberg
- Dr. Ananda Samir Chopra, Kassel / Heidelberg
“Panchakarma” (Sanskrit: Pañcakarman) has almost become a synonym for Āyurveda treatments. It is often praised as a method for “detox” or “rejuvenation” and is thus aligned to modern concepts of health and wellbeing. Going back to the oldest layer of āyurvedic literature, Pañcakarman, literally meaning “five procedures” in Sanskrit, first denotes a collection of five specific therapeutic procedures. Therapeutic emesis, purgation, two types of enemas and nasal oil-application are enumerated as forming the “five procedures, which are useful for strengthening health, prolonging life and eliminate disease” (as one old text says). In the āyurvedic literature of the past two thousand years the “five procedures” retain their reputation as effective treatments and continue to be developed. Following the trajectory of Pañcakarman over the centuries and from South Asia into a globalized sphere of health and wellness, this lecture discusses the role and meaning of Āyurveda in general as a medical system in various contexts.
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About Ananda Samir Chopra
Dr. med. Ananda Samir Chopra is a practicing physician as well as a medical historian. He studied Medicine and Classical Indology at Heidelberg University. After becoming a registered physician in Germany, he spent one year in Kolkata, India, to study Āyurveda. Since 1996 he has been working as a physician at the Ayurveda Department of the Habichtswald-Klinik in Kassel, a unique clinical department for Āyurveda medicine within a German rehabilitation hospital. Here authentic Āyurveda is practiced in constant dialogue with modern biomedicine. Taking leave from his hospital job, Chopra has also been working as a postdoctoral researcher at Heidelberg University (at the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context”) focussing on the modern history of Āyurveda. His research interests include the history and current practice of Āyurveda in India and around the globe. Ananda Samir Chopra has been learning and practicing classical Indian (Hindustani) music since his childhood and has for some time served as honorary director of studies at the Tagore Institute, Bonn.