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आम āmaIn Ayurveda, the undigested residue left when agni, the digestive fire, is weak or erratic. It is held to be sticky, to block the channels of the body, and to lie at the root of a great many disorders.
Where this term appears
- What is Ayurveda? Essentials
Ayurveda, literally 'the knowledge of life', is India's classical system of medicine, set out in three great Sanskrit compendia: the Charaka Samhita, the Sushruta…
- Sahasrara: The Thousand Petals Treatise
Above and within unfold the subtlest powers the literature names: the ama-kala , the immortal sixteenth digit of the moon that never wanes, the nirvana-kala , and the supreme nirvana-shakti , luminous, the text…