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The healing power of the physic garden

Having experienced the healing power of plants and gardens, Iona Glen goes in search of present-day “physic gardens” and their origins in history.

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Womb milk and the puzzle of the placenta

A human baby needs milk to survive – and this holds true even before it’s born. Joanna Wolfarth explores “womb milk”, as well as ancient and modern ideas about the placenta.

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Vivekananda’s journey

How a young Indian monk’s travels around the world inspired modern yoga.

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Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life

The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.

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  • Polychrome devil mask from Kolam performance, Sri Lanka.
  • Sri Lanka: traditional 'devil dancers' in costume. Photograph, ca. 1860.
  • Slaves harvesting cinnamon near Colombo, Sri Lanka. Line engraving by Mutlow.
  • Sri Lanka: Kandy, the fifteen different kinds of hell at maligawa's wall. Gouache painting by a Sri Lankan artist.
  • Possibly the temple at Nu Tooth, Sri Lanka. Watercolour drawing by C.H.S.B.
  • Galle, Sri Lanka: jewellers in traditional dress displaying their jewellery on a table. Photograph, ca. 1900.
  • Sebald de Weert is killed in Batticaloa, Sri Lanka, by officers of the King of Kandy, 1603. Engraving.
  • Hanuman defeating demons in Sri Lanka while Sita sits under a tree; Bhima killing Jarasamdha watched by Krishna. Transfer lithograph.
  • Elephants drinking in a river in Sri Lanka, with men in turbans seated upon their backs. Watercolour by A. Nicholl, 18--.
  • A happy Sri Lankan family with a warning about the importance of limiting sexual partners to prevent the spread of AIDS; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the Health Education Bureau of Sri Lanka. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
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