Marma — Transcript

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1. 0:01It can sound somewhat extraordinary for
2. 0:04a teacher to tell the students applying
3. 0:07pressure to a certain area of the ankle
4. 0:10in some situations can help bladder
5. 0:14functioning and calm the mood. And that
6. 0:17is what marmotherapy,
7. 0:19ancient pressure point therapy of
8. 0:21Ayurveda makes claims of. And this
9. 0:24murmur therapy has a lot of um overlap
10. 0:28and similarities to traditional Chinese
11. 0:31medicine's acupressure and acupoint uh
12. 0:34therapy.
13. 0:35Are there any convergences with what
14. 0:39this tradition is saying and modern
15. 0:41science?
16. 0:43Here we have an FDA cleared tibial nerve
17. 0:46stimulation device used for overactive
18. 0:49bladder and there's preliminary evidence
19. 0:52of increased parasympathetic activity
20. 0:55the rest and digest nervous system which
21. 0:57is very similar to what the gula marma
22. 1:00and ayurveda claims uh and this is
23. 1:03according to Dr. Vasant Lads, Merma
24. 1:05points of Ayurveda.
25. 1:07Merma points are vital points, vital
26. 1:10energy points where the physical tissue
27. 1:12interfaces with the life energy, the
28. 1:14prana. And in um the sasha sumita, it's
29. 1:19estimated there's 107 marker points. And
30. 1:23this slide is more philosophical than
31. 1:25scientific, but we do see some
32. 1:27interfaces and limits of our physical
33. 1:31world. Here we have the neuromuscular
34. 1:33junction, a translation of electrical,
35. 1:36chemical and mechanical energy. And in
36. 1:40physics they describe that the matter
37. 1:43and energy are two forms of the same
38. 1:45reality. And black holes uh are
39. 1:50described as um extreme gravitational
40. 1:55uh where gravity pushes our current
41. 1:58physical theories towards the limits.
42. 2:00there's some kind of transitional zone.
43. 2:01I'm not a physicist, but it's kind of
44. 2:04curious. So mara points in the ancient
45. 2:07ayurvedic um or ancient India were to be
46. 2:10protected because if certain areas let's
47. 2:13say the chest were hit and even if
48. 2:15there's no physical damage that that
49. 2:18could be even life-threatening and in
50. 2:20surgery in Ayurveda there are certain
51. 2:22points that were definitely to be
52. 2:24protected and in modern medicine we see
53. 2:27a parallel you know if somebody is hit
54. 2:30in the chest area uh even if didn't have
55. 2:34any pathologic uh findings that could be
56. 2:37life-threatening in certain cases.
57. 2:41Maurma is described as um used to reduce
58. 2:46heart racing and calmness and support
59. 2:48sleep for certain situations. And of
60. 2:51course, this is a very you you have to
61. 2:53be very cautious and I wouldn't
62. 2:55recommend um this type of stimulation uh
63. 2:59without any without medical supervision.
64. 3:02Um but we see the karate sinus massage
65. 3:05does similar things. It increases the
66. 3:08rest and digest nervous system, slows
67. 3:10the heart rate in certain um scenarios.
68. 3:14And that claim about helping the nervous
69. 3:17system and calm. Well, this is an
70. 3:19implanted cervical vagus nerve
71. 3:21stimulator device FDA approved for uh
72. 3:25certain types of drugresistant epilepsy
73. 3:28and uh treatment resistant depression.
74. 3:32Some ayurvedic merma points of the ear c
75. 3:35are claim claim also to have stress
76. 3:37reduction improve hyperactive mind and
77. 3:40help with certain types of headaches.
78. 3:44And we see that this is being researched
79. 3:47this transcutaneous erecular vagus nerve
80. 3:50stimulating device for migraines,
81. 3:53anxiety, depression, epilepsy.
82. 3:57So it's curious like why why would there
83. 4:01be this kind of phenomenon and just like
84. 4:04origami where you can take a single
85. 4:06sheet of paper and fold it and fold it
86. 4:08and get a a nice kind of symmetrical
87. 4:11design when we start with uh one
88. 4:14fertilized um cell that divides and
89. 4:18divides it has the road road map of um
90. 4:20all of the you know the DNA and that
91. 4:25again that's Again a philosophical kind
92. 4:27of analogy but it's
93. 4:30a little bit more curious when when we
94. 4:33look at through that lens that you know
95. 4:35stimulating the certain part of the ear
96. 4:38can um help stimulate your pineal gland
97. 4:42um people put earrings in that area um
98. 4:44or looking at the tongue may reflect
99. 4:47certain other areas of the body. So this
100. 4:49is very curious
101. 4:52and a lot of this is intuitive. Nobody
102. 4:54had to read about talidya improving
103. 4:58memory and causing relaxation.
104. 5:01Has anybody ever done this to relax
105. 5:04themselves by stimulating this um area
106. 5:07or this child taking an exam scratching
107. 5:09the top of her head
108. 5:12and in Ayurveda they call this the
109. 5:14aipati marma used to improve memory and
110. 5:18relaxation for certain situations. So um
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113. 5:25Ayurveda and how it um it relates with
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