Drink Air, Stay Fit
By Dr. Prakash C. Malshe, M.D.
Medical Specialist
Drink Air, Stay Fit – Yoga is increasing in popularity by leaps and bounds. Some proponents claim it to be the panacea of cures for every disease from amoebiasis to Alzheimer’s disease and from coronary artery disease to cancers.
Still, since yoga has been brought to us through the television channels, for most of us yoga means performing a few asanas and a few pranayamas. The internal cleansing procedures in yoga exemplified by vata-sara have been largely ignored, both due to their complexity and due to lack of medical knowledge in the yoga gurus.
Yoga gurus have been scratching their heads to arrive at the correct meaning of the ancient 12-step Suryanamaskara (Sun salutation), which has been debated for long.