Unani Medicine in the Making

Unani Medicine in the Making
Author: Kira Schmidt Stiedenroth
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020
Genre: Medicine
ISBN: 9789463724210

In 'Unani Medicine in the Making', Kira Schmidt Stiedenroth examines the contemporary institutions and practices of Graeco-Islamic healing in India. Drawing on interviews with practitioners, clinical observations, and Urdu sources, the book focuses on Unani's multiplicity, scrutinizing apparent tensions between the understanding of Unani as a system of medicine and its multiple enactments as Islamic medicine, medical science, or alternative medicine. Ethnographic details provide vivid descriptions of the current practices of Unani in India and invite readers to rethink the idea that humoral medicine is incommensurable with modern science. Ultimately, the book also discusses the relationship of Unani with Muslim communities, examining the growing practice of Prophetic Medicine in Urban India and the increasing representation of Unani as Islamic Medicine.

Vernacular Medicine in Colonial India

Vernacular Medicine in Colonial India
Author: Shinjini Das
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2019-03-14
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1108420621

Interrelated histories of colonial medicine, market and family reveal how Western homeopathy was translated and made vernacular in colonial India.

Handbook on Unani Medicines with Formulae, Processes, Uses and Analysis

Handbook on Unani Medicines with Formulae, Processes, Uses and Analysis
Author: NIIR Board of Consultants and Engineers
Publisher: ASIA PACIFIC BUSINESS PRESS Inc.
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2004-02-09
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 8178330423

As an alternative form of medicine, Unani has found favour in India. These Unani practitioners can practice as qualified doctors in India, as the government approve their practice. Unani medicine is very close to Ayurveda. Both are based on theory of the presence of the elements (in Unani, they are considered to be fire, water, earth and air) in the human body. According to followers of Unani medicine, these elements are present in different fluids and their balance leads to health and their imbalance leads to illness. Government have exclusive department of Indian system of medicine inclusive of Unani under Health ministry and several states have department and institutions to ensure the proper regulation and development of Unani medicine in India. Herb gardens, nursery of medicinal plants, experimental and field scale cultivation are the major initiatives taken for the improvement of medicine. Skin disease, liver disorder, sexual disturbances, pulmonary, sinus and communicable diseases are the major effective treatment achieved areas for Unani. Tremendous progress has been registered in the development of modern medicine. Yet, medicinal plants continue to be an important source of drugs throughout the world. Unani medicine is one of them, plant as a source of drugs of much more important for the developing countries. This book majorly deals with the, habitat, description, procedure and time of collection, chemical constituents, method of processing, therapeutic uses of medicinal plants. This book also constitutes the list of institutes of Unani medicines, list of college of Unani medicines in India, world importers of natural medicine. This publication is one of its kinds which clearly indicate the usefulness of Unani medicine, shows how the plant secrets, preserve the natural secrets/ hormones/ juices which ultimately uses in Unani system of medicine. This book is most informative and useful for students, Research scholars and scientist. We hope this book will achieve the long standing demand of herbal chemists. TAGS Handbook on Unani Medicines with Formulae, Processes, Uses and Analysis Unani Medicine in India, Process of Arabic & Yunani Medicine, Unani tibb, Arabian medicine, Islamic medicine, Animal Origin Drugs Used in Unani Medicine, Formulae of Unani Medicine Products, Medicinal Plants of Yunani Medicines, Ayurveda Medicines, Siddha Medicine, Medicinal Plants from Siddha System of Medicine, Medicinal Plants Used in Ayurveda, Yunani and Siddha, Medicine and Medicinal Plants Ayurveda, Aatrilal (Ammi Majus), Formulae of Azaraqi (Strychnos Nux-Vomica), Baqla (Vicia Faba), Process of Bazrulbanj (Hyoscyamus), Formulae of Chobchini (Smilax China), Formulae of Dudhi, Dudhi Khurd (Euphorbia Thymifolia), Process of Fifil Siyah (Piper Nigrum), Gaozaban (Borago Officinalis), Habbun Neel (Ipomoea Nil), Formulae of Halela Siyah (Terminalia Chebula), Formulae of Heel Khurd (Elettaria Cardamomum), Formulae of Inderjeo Talkh (Holarrhena Antidysenterica), Process of Ispand (Peganum Harmala), Process of Karanj (Pongamia Pinnata), Process of Karnab (Brassica Oleracea), Formulae of Khella (Ammi Visnaga), Mako (Solanum Nigrum), Formulae of Mundi (Sphaeranthus Indicus), Narjeel Daryaee (Lodoicea Maldivica), Process of Panwad (Cassia Tora), Formulae of Sambhalu (Vitex Negundo), Turbud (Operculina Turpethum), Cupri Sulphas, Process of Potassii Nitras, Process of Sodii Carbonas Impure, Formulae of Zincum, Zinci Oxidum, Formulae of Animal Flesh, Process of Mel, Urine, Snake Venom, Process of Ostrea Edulis, Process of M. Trianthema, Viverra Civetta, Chelonia, Bombyx Mori, Formulae of Stannic Sulphidum, Silicum, Process of Plumbi Oxidum, Process of Makaradhwaja, Formulae of Adamas, Preservation and Storage, Habitat, Method of Processing, Powdered Drug, Morphology

Scientific Basis for Ayurvedic Therapies

Scientific Basis for Ayurvedic Therapies
Author: Lakshmi C. Mishra
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 502
Release: 2003-09-29
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780849313660

Arguably the oldest form of health care, Ayurveda is often referred to as the "Mother of All Healing." Although there has been considerable scientific research done in this area during the last 50 years, the results of that research have not been adequately disseminated. Meeting the need for an authoritative, evidence-based reference, Scientific Basis for Ayurvedic Therapies is the first book to analyze and synthesize current research supporting Ayurvedic medicine. This book reviews the latest scientific information, evaluates the research data, and presents it in an easy to use format. The editor has carefully selected topics based on the availability of scientific studies and the prevalence of a disease. With contributions from experts in their respective fields, topics include Ayurvedic disease management, panchkarma, Ayurvedic bhasmas, the current status of Ayurveda in India, clinical research design, and evaluation of typical clinical trials of certain diseases, to name just a few. While there are many books devoted to Ayurveda, very few have any in-depth basis in scientific studies. This book provides a critical evaluation of literature, clinical trials, and biochemical and pharmacological studies on major Ayurvedic therapies that demonstrates how they are supported by scientific data. Providing a natural bridge from Ayurveda to Western medicine, Scientific Basis for Ayurvedic Therapies facilitates the integration of these therapies by health care providers.

Japanese Kampo Medicines for the Treatment of Common Diseases

Japanese Kampo Medicines for the Treatment of Common Diseases
Author: Somasundaram Arumugam
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2017-03-17
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0128094443

Japanese Kampo Medicines for the Treatment of Common Diseases - Focus on Inflammation provides researchers and clinicians with a current look at how Kampo medicines can be used to effectively treat inflammatory disorders. Japanese Kampo medicines are a mixture of natural and herbal medicines that are available in Japan for the treatment of various diseases. Given their therapeutic potential, they are often prescribed instead of, or alongside, allopathic medicines. Kampo medicines are becoming more widespread and have proven effective for the treatment of a variety of inflammatory diseases, such as colitis, dermatitis, myocarditis, hepatitis, cardiomyopathy, and nephritis. This book offers background on Japanese Kampo medicines, along with a compilation of the published scientific data for several different types of Kampo medicines. It is an evidence-based guide for all those involved in, or interested in, the research and practice of Kampo medicine. - Includes both preclinical and clinical data published from a variety of sources and compiled into one book - Provides insight for researchers and clinicians on which Kampo medicines will provide the least side effects and offer the most effective therapy for a particular illness - Offers important data that will help to inform future research and widen practice in this area

The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Medicine, and Health

The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Medicine, and Health
Author: Dorothea Lüddeckens
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 692
Release: 2021-11-24
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1000464326

The relationships between religion, spirituality, health, biomedical institutions, complementary, and alternative healing systems are widely discussed today. While many of these debates revolve around the biomedical legitimacy of religious modes of healing, the market for them continues to grow. The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Medicine, and Health is an outstanding reference source to the key topics, problems, and debates in this exciting subject and is the first collection of its kind. Comprising over thirty-five chapters by a team of international contributors, the Handbook is divided into five parts: Healing practices with religious roots and frames Religious actors in and around the medical field Organizing infrastructures of religion and medicine: pluralism and competition Boundary-making between religion and medicine Religion and epidemics Within these sections, central issues, debates and problems are examined, including health and healing, religiosity, spirituality, biomedicine, medicalization, complementary medicine, medical therapy, efficacy, agency, and the nexus of body, mind, and spirit. The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Medicine, and Health is essential reading for students and researchers in religious studies. The Handbook will also be very useful for those in related fields, such as sociology, anthropology, and medicine.

Textbook of Cosmetology in Unani Medicine

Textbook of Cosmetology in Unani Medicine
Author: Nazim Husain
Publisher: Notion Press, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India
Total Pages: 20
Release: 2021-04-09
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1638861781

This book is intended primarily for medical students, interns, and general practitioners interested in improving their ability to deal with beauty care and ushering in this field. We have essentially chosen to present the theoretical as well as the practical aspects of cosmetology in order to approach the most appropriate strategies suitable for skin type in an abridged manner. Our primary goal is to provide our readers a better understanding of the subject enriched with Unani concept and therapeutic strategies.

Fluent Bodies

Fluent Bodies
Author: Jean Langford
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2002
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780822329480

An ethnography of Ayurvedic medicine which argues the ills it cures are largely effects of postcolonial identity.