Indigenous Medicinal Specialities

Equally s well as highly useful for both, the researchers and the medical practitioners, this handbook is a mine of important information related to India’s indigenous system of medicine, the Ayurveda. For an easy reference, the book contains systematically arranged list of over 2500 entries with names of indigenous drugs in Hindi and other languages, their important actions and uses, ingredients, specifications regarding dose, and references to the original texts. A special section incorporates an alphabetically arranged list of branded Ayurvedic medicines having indigenous drugs in them, indicating the name of the medicine, manufacture’s name, synonym if any, ingredients, therapeutical uses and contraindications, if any. The book comes to a close with a therapeutic index that gives affinities between the various drugs employed for any particular disease.