Indigenous Medicinal Specialities

AUTHOR: U.B. Narayanrao
PUBLISHER: Biotech Books
ISBN: 9788176220637
YEAR: 2001 (First Edition), 2003 (Second Edition), 2005 (Third Edition)
PAGES: 336
SIZE: 14 X 22 X 2 cms.
BINDING: Hard
LANGUAGE: English

ABOUT THE BOOK: Equally as 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.

CONTENTS:
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION

SECTION : I
    (a) List of abbreviations
    (b) List of abbreviations of Reference Books
    (c) List of abbreviations of Languages

SECTION : II
    Table of weights and measures

SECTION : III
    Indigenous Drugs

SECTION : IV
    Indigenous Drug Combinations with Special Names

SECTION : V
    Indigenous Medicinal Specialities with names, authorities, ingredients, actions and their uses

SECTION : VI
    List of Indigenous Medicinal Manufacturers.

SECTION : VII
    Specialities having indigenous drugs in them

SECTION : VIII
    Therapeutic

Index