K.R. Srikantha Murthy
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Like my earlier book 'Clinical Methods in Ayurveda', this book also has emerged out of my lecture notes prepared for teaching the students of the Govt. College of Indian medicine, Mysore during 1962-1971. it was first published in kannadain 1972 by the Karnatak university, Dharwad. Dr. Kalyana Sharma M.D. (y) one of my students translated it into Telugu and published it in 1978. I was happy to learn from him later, that it is being eagerly sought for by the ...
Bhavaprakasa written by Bhavamisra is an authoritative text on Ayurveda and is being studied by students, teachers and practitioners of Ayurveda since last five centuries. It is comprehensive, dealing with basic doctrines, aetiology, symptomatology and treatment of all diseases. It describes about 500 drugs belonging to vegetable, mineral and animal kingdoms. This lexicon of drugs (Nighantu Bhaga) is considered as a speciality of this text since in incorporates ...
The Samhita is designed to serve as a practitioner's hand book as the author himself states. Written in simple and easy language the book consists of 32 chapters with 2600 verses in all; the first section with 7 chapters and 585 verses, the second with 12 chapter and 1261 verses and the third section with 13 chapters and 682 verses. Ancient treatises of Ayurveda have been broadly classified into two groups viz. the Brihat trayee (greater triad) and the Laghu ...
Susruta samhita is the first authoritative book on Ayurveda. It has the distinction of being the only authentic text on ancient Indian surgery and contains the description of many wonderful surgical feats conducted by ancient Indian surgeons.
Susruta, the author of the book is the pioneer in performing repair and reconstruction of mutilated organs of the humanbody, known now a days as "plastic surgery". His method of repairing the mutilated ...
This treatise - Roga Viniscaya - is more popularly known as Madhava Nidana after the name of its author. It is counted as the first among the Laghu Trayi (the lesser triad) of Ayurvedic literature. It is considered as the ideal book dealing with Nosology (knowledge of diseases) and has earned a praise for its author as "Madhava is best for Nidana". It has retained its importance as a text-book on the subject since the last thirteen ...
Astangahrdaya of Vagbhata is an ancient authoritative treatise on Ayurveda. Its popularity extended beyond the frontiers of India for more than a Thousand years is substantiated by its translation in Arabic, Tibetan and of course of some European languages. None of these are available now. Study of Astangahrdaya is considered indispensable for a through knowledge of Ayurveda. With the increasing interest these days for the study of classical texts of Ayurveda ...
Caraka Samhita is an authoritative text on Ayurveda, held in high esteem and being studied since many centuries in India. Its importance is great since it describes briefly in its 120 chapters, all the basic doctrines of Ayurveda. Some such doctrines are - Lokapurusasamya - (man a microcosm) Pancamahabhuta (five primary elements). Ayuhbheda (kinds of life) dosa-dhatu mala in their normal and abnormal states, Dhatu Samya is arogya (health) and Dhatu Vaisamya is ...
This book 'Astangasamgraha' of Acarya Vagbhata is an ancient authoritative text on Ayurveda, studies since many centuries by students, scholars and practitioners of Indian medicine. Because of its archaic style of composition and terse language certain amount of difficulty is being experienced. Desire for translation of the complete text either in Hindi or English is being keenly felt. This translation in English hopes to fulfil the need. Translation has ...
The book furnishes glimpses of life and works of great men who propounded and propagated Ayurveda-the science of ancient Indian medicine, commencing from the period of Indus Valley Civilisation upto the present day in chronological order. Information is collected from various sources, sifted carefully and only those which have been held as reliable by the present day authorities are furnished. Discussion on points of dispute have been avoided and only the opinion ...