Ancient treatise on Ayurvedic system in Indic medicine.
From its earliest days, Buddhism has been closely intertwined with medicine. Buddhism and Medicine is a singular collection showcasing the generative relationship and mutual influence between these fields across premodern Asia.
The work inspired more than twenty commentaries throughout East Asia and three in Tibet, the most recent in 2014.This book is the first of its kind in Buddhist studies: a comprehensive history of a text and its commentarial tradition.
It has been estimated that the north-eastern region comprises approximately 7500 species of flowering plants that constitute nearly 40% of the total floristic wealth of the country, which is about 19,400 taxa (Karthikeyan 2000).
Verse work, with English translation and notes, on ayurveda system in Indic medicine.
Body and Cosmos presents a series of articles by renowned Indological scholars on the early Indian medical and astral sciences. It is published on the occasion of the 70th birthday of Professor Emeritus Kenneth G. Zysk.
This book will be of interest to proponents of Ayurveda and all branches of traditional and alternative medicine. Experts from the fields of medicine, pharmacology, new drug discovery and food technology will also find it useful.
Aṣṭāṅga Hr̥daya of Vāgbhaṭa
Practical Prescriber For Ayurveda Physicians
The writings selected for this volume are taken from Sanskrit medical texts written by the first Ayurvedic physicians, who lived between the fifth century b.c. and the fourteenth century a.d.
Fills a gap in scholarship on Indian culture and power between 1500 and 1800, arguing that we can't know how colonialism changed South Asia unless we know what there was to be changed.