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Herbs, pills and potions - part two

Second in a series of programmes on the origins of medicine. Rajesh Mirchandani goes to Varanasi to examine Ayurvedic medicine, a health system designed to maintain a person's internal and external equilibrium. To be healthy, people should be in harmony both with themselves and their environment.

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