Abu Mansur's Al-Abniya a pioneering work on pharmacological treatise in Persian language, has not received the attention that it richly deserves. This work provides as a starting point to probe into the hitherto neglected field of study regarding the relationship of medical systems prevalent in Central, West and South Asia-Greco-Syriac, Iranian and Ayurvedic medical sciences.

One should never sleep during day-time after eating. Such sleep excites phlegm and bile and brings on such diseases as jaundice, painful headaches, languor and unsteadiness, as also heaviness of the limbs, loss of lightness of the body, loss of appetite, dropsical swellings, hiccough, inflammation of the Schneiderian membrane, loss of memory and intelligence, hemicrania, urticaria evanida, erup...

Mechanistic biomedical model based on classical physics is the basis of our current understanding of human system. Real world, however, is non-classical as predicted by Quantum Physics, which in a nutshell says everything in the universe is interrelated and a change in one part of the system will be reflected in the other parts as well. This quantum worldview is entirely consistent with the ved...

Belief in the role of Karma explains a variety of Phenomena in India. For a traditional medical system such as Ayurveda, the conflict between simultaneously held beliefs in fatalism and the efficacy of medical interventions poses an interesting dilemma that the tradition has taken pains to consider. Caraka Samhita discusses the role of karma as a determinant of the qualities and personality of ...

Bing a holistic medical system, Ayurveda is unique in its approach to the study of diseases. It also has the potential of giving rise to a new psychotherapy in which devices of bhakti, yoga and Vedanta can be ably incorporated.

The influence of the environment to the physique is well known. The same is applicable to the mind too. The various new inventions and modern scientific advances have revolutionized the life style of the modern man. At the same time these have contributed much in making life more mechanical and stress generating. In this background we have to think how best the psychiatrical knowledge available...

In basic Ayurveda texts, Susruta, Caraka and Vagbhata, some quite specific Salts (Lavanam) have been described and their properties and actions are enumerated. By comparing those accounts with the present methods of preparation, conclusions have been made and evidently spurious methods are pointed out. The reported properties of Saindhava, Samudra, Vida, Sauvarcha, Romaka, Audbhida, Gutika, the...

The identification of the plant Kebuka is probed here by interpreting the classical texts in Ayurveda.