Showing all 2 books
A number of books have been written on medicinal plants of India. All of them, except two exhaustive volumes published by Indian Council of Medical Research, are too old and have become outdated because of considerable research on these plants during the last 25 years. All these volumes, whether old or new, have presented a large list of 1,000 or more plants and the list includes a fairly large number of food crops like wheat, rice, peas, sugarcane, and even ...
The Science of metallurgy and geology was well developed in the pre-historic India. A frequent mention of metals is thee in the ancient texts and historical records. The interesting thing is that most of the development on the medicinal uses of minerals was not developed in Ayurveda but in closed allied system Siddha which is mainly practiced in Tamilnadu and the adjoining areas in south India. The practitioners of this system of medicine are called Sidhars, and ...