Introduction
In the 20th Century a great effort has been made both to prove that yoga and acupuncture (i.e., Chinese medicine) can be used for health-related purposes and to discover the functional mechanisms of both systems. From the Western point of view, when both yoga and Chinese medicine became popular as a Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) a resistance became perceptible that led to regulation of CAM (CAMDOC Alliance, 2010). The main issue is that Western and Eastern medicine have a different approach to both health and treatment of illness.
In case of yoga, it has to be stated that it was not conceived as a medical system, but as a system for the discovery of the ultimate goal of humans – Self-realization. Thus, its methods – though there are a great number of yoga traditions – are directed to this aim. Nevertheless, hatha yoga has a strong emphasis on health and has a wonderful spectrum of procedures for arriving at a health status that enables intensive pursuing of the said ultimate goal manifested as samadhi that follows from the cessation of the activities of chitta – the substance of mind/mindfield. The result stated in Patanjali Yoga sutra (PYS) is:
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