treatment of physical diseases of the lower abdomen e.g.
digestive ailments and sexual disorders. Because the body
and mind are inextricably interlinked, ‘as in the body, so in
the mind,’ an effect on one cannot pass unnoticed by the
other. Accordingly, moola bandha has the immediate effect
of creating a deep sense of mental relaxation, thereby
relieving most mental and psychosomatic disorders which
are the direct or indirect effect of stress, tension and anxiety.
As a mental relaxant, moola bandha has been found
extremely useful in the treatment of such mental disorders
A as depression, neurosis, some phobias, hysteria and mania.
Little experimental evidence exists to substantiate the elfects
of moola bandha on psychosis. However, because of its
effects on the brain and by virtue of the fact that moola
bandha is effective in the treatment of both mania and
depression, it has proved useful in correcting the extreme
moods characteristic of manic-depressive psychosis, and in
some cases of schizophrenia, especially in the early stages.
