A Literature Review on Panchabootha Mudras and its Effect on Health

Abstract

Mudra is a part of yoga. The human body and the world is made up of five elements namely boomi, neer, Agni, vayu, aagayam. The disturbances in these five elements are the causes of diseases and the imbalance of the mind. In order to bring equilibrium in the state of our body and mind we resort to yoga and its part mudra. We can perform hundreds of mudras and it depends on how the formation is performed with different fingers, mudra plays a very significant role in improving and maintaining our health irrespective of age and gender, anyone can get the benefits from mudra. These five mudras are very helpful in maintaining equilibrium in body. Thus, there is a need to work on this topic for the benefits of people. The information are collected from Siddha classical books of library, Government Siddha Medical College, Palayamkottai.