Nobel prize in physiology awarded for what is written in Ayurveda 3000 yrs ago (this is the world we live in)


For some reason the western world has to reinvent the wheel while denying anything ancient as having any value. The 2013 Nobel Prize honors three scientists who have solved the mystery of how the cell organizes its transport system. Each cell is a factory that produces and exports molecules. For instance, insulin is manufactured and released into the blood and signaling molecules called neurotransmitters are sent from one nerve cell to another. These molecules are transported around the cell in small packages called vesicles. The three Nobel Laureates have discovered the molecular principles that govern how this cargo is delivered to the right place at the right time in the cell.

Now if you compare this to Dhatu Poshana Nyaya of Ayurveda or the understanding of how tissues are formed in Ayurveda, you will see that what these scientist have come up with is nothing more than what is written almost 3000 years ago in Charaka Samhita, the main treatise on Ayuvreda from 700BC.

The amazingly similar mechanisms to what has been “discovered” are of Dhatu Poshana or tissue nourishing. Agni or the and Srotas are the master facilitators of tissue nourishment operating through following three mechanisms which are complementary to each other:

Kedari Kulya Nyaya or microcirculation and tissue perfusion. This nyaya states that the living body is provided with innumerable microvascular channels which carry nourishment to the respective sites in Dhatus (tissues). The cells and tissues are literally perfused with nutrient plasma but mere tissue perfusion is not enough to complete the process of nourishment. This needs the complementary play of the subsequent two nyayas. (Ch. Su 28/4), (Ch Chi 15/36)

Khale Kapot Nyaya refers to the selective uptake of nutrients by respective cells and tissues in the same way as the birds of different species pickup selective grains and cereals from common harvesting ground because the Kedari Kulya Nyaya provides a total pool of nutrients at the site of all tissues but the different tissues require different specific nutrients and hence there is a need of active selective uptake. As an example the bone tissue will only take the amino acids and minerals like Calcium Phosphorus, while the blood tissue will uptake specifically the nutrients like Iron etc. which is necessary for formation of blood.

Vagbhata states that “As the flame of the forest fire tends to increase or decrease according to the quantity of fuel, so also is the case with dhatuparinama. Substances are either similar or distinct, which cause an increase or decrease as the case may be, of the tissues due to the properties potentially inherited by them, as in the case of a seed; homologous properties of substances cause sufficient and rapid increase of identical or homologous properties in the tissues” (A. S. Su 19/16 – 18)

Kshira Dadhi Nyaya refers to the final transformation and assimilation of the uptaken nutrients into the tissue system and life process. This essentially is comparable with the conversion of milk into yogurt, hence the term Kshira “milk” Dadhi “yogurt” Nyaya. It is where the preceding tissues get transformed into the succeeding tissue. The first tissue, rasadhatu, is “cooked” by the respective agnis and becomes rakta, similarly the raktadhatu (blood tissue) changed as mamsadhautu (muscle tissue) and mamsadhatu changes into medadhatu (fat tissue) . (Ch. Chi 15/15 – 16, Su Su 14/10)

Now for the Nobel Prize:……….. read it and you make the judgement, reinvention of the wheel?

The 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

jointly to

James E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman
and Thomas C. Südhof

for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic,
a major transport system in our cells





How cargo is transported in the cell (Kedari Kulya Nyaya)


Traffic congestion reveals genetic controllers (Kshira Dadhi Nyaya)


Docking with precision (Khale Kapot Nyaya)



Timing is everything


Vesicle transport gives insight into disease processes





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