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Oncology in Kidwai, Bangalore, came, he found that the tumor had started regressing, and the man was able to eat. He is continuing his improvement. Although we cannot claim today that yoga can cure cancer, probably after another three or four years of detailed follow-up we will be able to reach this conclusion. At this present stage we can say that it can improve the effectiveness of the drugs, reduce the secondary effects of the drugs, bring about a feeling of wellbeing, and develop confidence in the patients.
The latest innovation in yoga in cancer research is the wonderful discovery or innovation of Dr. Chauhan from Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER). He has been using Kirlian photography, which he calls bio-electrography, to catch the pranic field. The pranamaya kosha can be photographed and through analysis of this we will be able to know whether the disease has already started in the pranamaya kosha long before it starts manifesting in the body. Dr. Chauhan used that Kirlian machine to complete his PhD thesis and today he has developed it into a beautiful computerized model, which is being further tested for final standardization. You just place your hand on the correct part of that machine, and within ten minutes you will know whether you have cancer or not, or whether you are going to get cancer or not in the next nine months. That is the beautiful innovation of Dr. Chauhan. The machine is going for a safety test to London, then it will be on the market. That is an innovation in the field of yoga to demonstrate that yoga can bring about a change in the various dimensions.
So, we can see that yoga is not only preventive, not only corrective but that it also can deal with acute cases. For example, we have developed a special technique, called yoga chair breathing for use in bronchial attacks through which the breathing starts to reduce, the wheezing starts to reduce and the person is able to overcome the attack. One of our papers on this subject has been published recently in Israel and Dr. Vedanta's work in Fort Collins in the United States, and at our various research centers in the United States and in U.K. have shown very encouraging results. As Dr. Bhole has mentioned, yoga is a not a therapeutic system, yoga is the science of total living, as most of us know today. Therefore, to make yoga a socially relevant science we have resorted to scientific research with long-term follow-up.
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