Materia Medica of Ayurveda

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ABOUT THE BOOK
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Materia-medica of Ayurveda is a store-house of therapeutically useful drugs, which can provide cure for several obstinate and otherwise incurable diseases. Unlike the conventional, synthetic and fractionally isolated drugs of Modem Medicine which often produce side-effects, Ayurvedic medicaments are natural products of vegetable, minerai and animal origin, and these are used in natural or semiprocessed form because of which, instead of side-effects, they produce several additional side-benefits while curing a disease.
Several works on Materia-medica of Ayurveda were composed earlier but the present work of the King Madana Pâla, which was composed in 1374-AD, has some unique advantages'in as-much as it is neither excessively elaborate nor very brief. The author had access to earlier works on this subject and compiled only the most .authen-tic information on each of the Ingrédients. It has included, in addition to indigenous drugs, several exotic plants which... Tovább

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ABOUT THE BOOK
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Materia-medica of Ayurveda is a store-house of therapeutically useful drugs, which can provide cure for several obstinate and otherwise incurable diseases. Unlike the conventional, synthetic and fractionally isolated drugs of Modem Medicine which often produce side-effects, Ayurvedic medicaments are natural products of vegetable, minerai and animal origin, and these are used in natural or semiprocessed form because of which, instead of side-effects, they produce several additional side-benefits while curing a disease.
Several works on Materia-medica of Ayurveda were composed earlier but the present work of the King Madana Pâla, which was composed in 1374-AD, has some unique advantages'in as-much as it is neither excessively elaborate nor very brief. The author had access to earlier works on this subject and compiled only the most .authen-tic information on each of the Ingrédients. It has included, in addition to indigenous drugs, several exotic plants which were popularly used at that time by the physicians of this country and abroad for their therapeutlc utility. This work includes 13 groups of drugs including ingrédients of food and drinks.
This book was out of print since long. It has been collated with the help of several manuscripts in addition to différent earlier éditions of this work. Instead of a running translation, description of the ingrédients undervarioussub-headingsisfurnished and the botanical or English names of these ingrédients are given, which will be useful for study and reference by students and teachers of Ayurveda and Modem Medicine, and by other scientists interested in Oriental Medicaments and
history of medicine. Vissza