According to the yogis don't have just one body. You have five. Just as you wear layers of clothes- underwear, a shirt or blouse, a sweater , a coat-so your innermost spirit wears layers layers of increasingly subtle energies, with which it can operate in increasingly subtle dimensions of the universe.
The Taittiriya Upanishad describes five " sheaths" worn by the spirit, like a sword in a scabbard that's in a box that's in a chest that's in a closest that's in a house:
< Anna maya kosha : the body made of physical matter
< Prana maya kosha : the body made of vital energy
< Mano maya kosha : the body of thought energy
< Vijnana maya kosha: the body of higher intelligence
< Ananda maya kosha : the body of mystical awareness
The anna maya kosha or physical body is made from anna, food. You eat, you grow. The physical matter in food becomes the physical matter of your body.
In a similar manner, the prana maya kosha is made up of life energy. This is the subtle energy medieval physicians in Europe used to call the vital force. In China it's called chi, and learning to manipulate it is the basis of acupuncture and in the martial arts. Western esoteric tradition, the prana maya kosha is sometimes called the etheric body.
Homeopathic medicines do not act directly on the physical body, but are used to balance the pranic fields around which the physical matter of the body takes shape, like iron filings arranging themselves along the lines of force emanating from a magnet.
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