Acharya Vagbhata's Astanga Hridayam Vol 1

Acharya Vagbhata's Astanga Hridayam Vol 1
Author: Dr Sanjay Pisharodi
Publisher: Volume
Total Pages: 594
Release: 2016-05-27
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9789352583638

This book is the first to make each verse of the Ashtanga Hridayam available to English speakers through transliteration, a word-for-word translation, and a translation of the verse in full. Also this book provides the commentaries of the Acharyas for greater illumination. International students will be empowered by this invaluable text.

Aṣṭāṅga Hr̥daya of Vāgbhaṭa

Aṣṭāṅga Hr̥daya of Vāgbhaṭa
Author: Vāgbhaṭa
Publisher: Chaukhambha Publications
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2008
Genre: Medicine, Ayurvedic
ISBN: 9788189798154

Treatise on Ayurvedic medicine; portion of Aṣṭāṅgahr̥daya.

Ayurveda

Ayurveda
Author: Manisha Kshirsagar
Publisher: Lotus Press
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2012-02-16
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0940676958

"Ayurveda: A Quick Reference Handbook is an excellent addition to the library of any Ayurvedic student or practitioner, and is written in a clear style for beginners. It summarizes all of the basic Ayurvedic knowledge in beautiful charts that make finding the information for reference easy. Yoga, Jyotish and Vastu included in the same book expands the vedic resources for Ayurvedic students." - Cynthia Copple, Dean: Mount Madonna College of Ayurveda; President: Lotus Holistic Health Institute

Contagion

Contagion
Author: Lawrence I. Conrad
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 135194925X

Contagion - even today the word conjures up fear of disease and plague and has the power to terrify. The nine essays gathered here examine what pre-modern societies thought about the spread of disease and how it could be controlled: to what extent were concepts familiar to modern epidemiology present? What does the pre-modern terminology tell us about the conceptions of those times? How did medical thought relate to religious and social beliefs? The contributors reveal the complexity of ideas on these subjects, from antiquity through to the early modern world, from China to India, the Middle East, and Europe. Particular topics include attitudes to leprosy in the Old Testament and the medieval West, conceptions of smallpox etiology in China, witchcraft and sorcery as disease agents in ancient India, and the influence of classical Greek medical theory. An important conclusion is that non-medical perceptions are as crucial as medical ones in people’s beliefs about disease and the ways in which it can be combatted. Today we may not believe in the power of demons, but the idea that illness is retribution for sin retains great power, as was shown by the popular reaction to the spread of AIDS/HIV, and this is a lesson from the past that the medical profession would do well to heed.