Reading Sanskrit Improves Brain Functioning

The MUM Review, 6.Feb. 2002, by Brynne Sissom

Dr. Travis asked his test subjects to read passages from the Bhagavad-Gita in Sanskrit and in modern foreign languages (Spanish, French, or German). In each case they could pronounce the sounds but did not know the meaning. He measured brain wave patterns (ERG), heart and breath rate, and galvanic skin resistance during two reading sessions and during a 15-minute session of the Transcendental Meditation technique.
He found that while they read Sanskrit their physiology was similar to those measured during the Transcendental Meditation technique, but significantly different from reading a modern language.
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Research article on Ayurvedic herbs by me.

http://lib.bioinfo.pl/auth:Garodia,P
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Benefits of Meditation

Conditions In Which Meditation Has Been shown to be beneficial:

The list is NOT all inclusive.

Anxiety (Kabat-Zinn & Massion, 1992; Miller et al., 1995)
Asthma (Wilson, Hansberger, Chin, & Novey, 1975)
Carotid atherosclerosis (Castillo-Richmond et al., 2000)
Cancer (Carlson et al, 2004; Speca et al, 2000 )
Chronic pain (Kabat-Zinn & Massion, 1982; Kabat-Zinn, Lipworth & Burney, 1985)
Coronary artery disease (Zamarra, Schneider, Bessaghini, Robinson, & Salerno, 1996)
Coronary care units (Guzzetta, 1989)
Depression (Teasdale et al, 2000)
Diagnostic procedures (Frenn, Fehring, & Kartes, 1986)
Drug abuse (Shafii, 1973)
Fibromyalgia (Astin et al, 2003)
Headache (Benson, Klemchuk, & Graham, 1974)
HIV/AIDS (Robinson et al, 2003)
Hypertension (Schneider et al., 1996)
Irritable Bowel Syndrome (Keefer et al, 2002)
Organ Transplantation (Kreitzer et al, 2004)
Psoriasis (Kabat-Zinn et al., 1998)
Psychotherapy (Bogart, 1991)
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