Goyeche J R
Psychother Psychosom. 1979;31(1-4):373-81. doi: 10.1159/000287361.
Yoga as therapy with psychosomatic disorders has been practiced for many centuries in India, and only recently has become utilized for this purpose in other countries. The yoga system evolved as a 'system of liberation' to allow man to discriminate between his ego-self and pure consciousness, and as such, its medical benefits are really 'side-effects'. Integral yoga practice, however, with which many other self-regulatory somatopsychic approaches have much in common, consists of a holistic technology which functions to restore optimal homeostatis by a variety of special techniques not found in other approaches. Clinical observations of psychosomatic patients indicate that their distorted somatopsychic functioning necessitates their practice of yoga-like therapy. A review of the clinical evidence available indicates that yoga practice has proven most effective with a wide range of psychosomatic and psychiatric disorders. The effectiveness of yoga can be partially understood in terms of neurophysiological theory.
在印度，瑜伽作为治疗身心失调的疗法已经应用了许多世纪，直到最近才在其他国家被用于这一目的。瑜伽体系是作为一种“解脱体系”发展而来的，旨在让人区分自我与纯粹意识，因此，它的医疗益处实际上是“副作用”。然而，完整的瑜伽练习与许多其他自我调节身心的方法有很多共同之处，它是一种整体技术，通过各种其他方法所没有的特殊技巧来恢复最佳的内稳态。对身心失调患者的临床观察表明，他们扭曲的身心功能需要他们进行类似瑜伽的治疗。对现有临床证据的综述表明，瑜伽练习已被证明对广泛的身心失调和精神疾病最为有效。瑜伽的有效性可以从神经生理学理论的角度得到部分理解。
