Controversial Drug Plants

Controversial Drug Plants
Author: R. Vasudevan Nair
Publisher: Universities Press
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2004
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9788173714696

This Book Describes Some Commonly Used Medicinal Plants Of Uncertain Botanical Identity. With The Increased Public Interest In The Use Of Herbs To Treat Ailments, Many Spurious Plants Are Being Used In The Manufacture Of Ayurvedic Medicines. This Is Sometimes Owing To Ignorance And In Other Cases, An Attempt By Unscrupulous Manufacturers Taking Advantage Of This Demand. The Book Differentiates Between Adulterants, Substitutes And Genuine Drugs. This Book Will Be Helpful To Those Manufacturers Who Wish To Use Genuine Drug Plants In Their Preparations And To Educate Lay People Who Are Using Ayurvedic Remedies. It Will Also Be Useful To Pharmacists.

भावप्रकाश निघंटु

भावप्रकाश निघंटु
Author: भावमिश्र
Publisher:
Total Pages: 682
Release: 2007
Genre: Materia medica, Vegetable
ISBN: 9788189469115

Bhavaprakash Nighantu is nucleus of Ayurvedic Materia Medica. It is one of the most indispensable works on Ayurveda. This work on English translation of the ancient Ayurvedic text has been divided into two parts: Part A, deals with principle Ayurvedic drugs of plant and animal origin. It covers twenty chapters on various gana (classification) of Bhavaprakash. Here, Ayurvedic parameters applicable to drugs have been tackled in detail. Classification of drugs according to medicinal activity, Description of gana according to Ayurveda, Brief monographs of medicinal plants used in Ayurveda, Certain miscellaneous Ayurvedic drugs, Plants used in other alternative systems of medicine, Drugs of animal origin. It will serve a handy reference book for all those involved in ayurvedic and medicinal plant research.

Dhanvantari-nighaṇṭu

Dhanvantari-nighaṇṭu
Author: Amritpal Singh
Publisher:
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2008
Genre: Materia medica
ISBN:

Verse work, with Hindi English on ayurvedic materia medica.

Purana Purusha

Purana Purusha
Author: Ashoke Kumar Chatterjee
Publisher:
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2000
Genre: Yogis
ISBN:

An Introduction to Nighaṇṭus of Āyurveda

An Introduction to Nighaṇṭus of Āyurveda
Author: D. Shanthkumar Lucas
Publisher: Chaukhambha Publications
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2006
Genre: Materia medica
ISBN: 9788186937761

2011 Updated Reprint. Updated Annually. Eastern Caribbean States Economic and Political Cooperation Handbook

Encyclopaedia of Indian Medicine

Encyclopaedia of Indian Medicine
Author: Saligrama Krishna Ramachandra Rao
Publisher: Popular Prakashan
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1985
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9788171542567

Projected six-volume set of encyclopedia on the "indigenous medical wisdom in India known as Ayurveda." Entries range from short to long. Miscellaneous appendixes.

Prime Ayurvedic Plant Drugs

Prime Ayurvedic Plant Drugs
Author: Sukh Dev
Publisher: Anshan Pub
Total Pages: 536
Release: 2006
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN:

In recent years ayurvedic healing has gained credibility in Western medicine and it has now become an accepted means of treatment for many ailments. This treatment relies upon the therapeutic pharmaceutic efficacy of plants. This book brings ancient and modern together by correlating the important traditional therapeutic claims of 89 ayurvedic plant drugs with the findings of modern scientific investigation. It provides the therapeutic attributes of each plant as well as indicating their potential for use as modern herbal or molecular drugs. It also provides a useful standardization of classical ayurvedic formulations. This book will serve as an excellent reference work for chemists, botanists, pharmacists and medical professionals.

Dravyaguṇa Vijñāna: A-J

Dravyaguṇa Vijñāna: A-J
Author: Dr. Gyanendra Pandey
Publisher:
Total Pages: 968
Release: 1998
Genre: Materia medica, Vegetable
ISBN:

On Ayurvedic system in Indic medicine.