Sleep Medicine: A Comprehensive Guide to Its Development, by Sudhansu Chokroverty, Michel Billiard

By Sudhansu Chokroverty, Michel Billiard

This accomplished quantity presents a balanced and simply readable account of the increase of contemporary sleep medication, its background and developmental milestones. Authored through a global crew of specialists, the striking growth and interesting evolution from rudimentary suggestions of the traditional prehistoric and early classical classes to our modern wisdom are coated intimately. those examples and their courting to trendy treatments supply neurologists, psychiatrists, breathing experts, clinicians, researchers and people drawn to sleep drugs a major standpoint to the origins of present practice.

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Singh B, Chhina GS. Changing concepts of human consciousness from ancient to modern times. In: Kothari DS, Brahmachari D, Joshi SK, Chhina GS, Kurup PNB, editors. Seminar on yoga, science and man. New Delhi: Central Council for Research in Indian Medicine and Homoeopathy; 1976.  284–9. Pal K. Yoga and psycho-analysis. New Delhi: Bhagavan Das Memorial Trust; 1966.  180. Taimni IK. Glimpses into the psychology of yoga. Madras: Theosophical Publishing House; 1976.  409. Chhina GS, Singh B. Whither scientific research on yoga.

The symbolic meaning of items in a dream might even have contradictory explanations. 1 is an illustration of how four different common items are symbolically interpreted in the ancient Egyptian culture, compared to other ancient cultures, namely the Assyrian, the Greek, and the Hebrew [8]. How Did Ancient Egyptian Medicine Deal with Sleep Disorders? The medicine of ancient Egypt is one of the oldest documented scientific disciplines. ” The Egyptian priest–physicians served a number of important functions, discovering and treating a lot of diseases, through some powerful magic (rituals, spells, incarnations, talismans, and amulets), deities, scripture, herbal medicine, and some other methods.

16] Narcolepsy The Edwin Smith Papyrus referred to epilepsy without clear description of narcolepsy, as described in the translated Babylonian texts [17]. Hypnosis The ancient civilizations of Egypt, China, and Tibet used hypnosis in one way or another, with reference to deep sleep. Sleep temples are regarded by some as an early instance of hypnosis, over 4000 years ago, under the influence of Imhotep, who served as chancellor and high priest of the sun god Ra. Such sleep temples were like hospitals of sorts, healing a variety of ailments, perhaps many of them psychological in nature.

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