Ayurveda at the crossroads of care and cure
Subtitle: Proceedings of the Indo-European Seminar on Ayurveda held in Arrabida November 2001
Publisher: CHAM
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Lisboa & Pune
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 284
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS; title: Introduction; title: Diseases in Ancient India; title: Doctors as characters in Sanskrit narrative literature; title: Garcia de Orta and his work in the field of drugs and medicinal plants; title: Cannabis in Traditional Indian Herbal Medicine; title: Evidence of the Use of Ayurvedic Medicine in the Medical Institutions of Portuguese India, 1680-1830; title: Evolution of basic principles of Ayurveda; title: A review of the concept of pitta; title: The concept of pañcamahabhuta and its applications; title: Challenges in Developing Medicinal Plant Databases on Ayurveda; title: New approaches to ayurvedic drug development; title: Effect of Kerala systems of snehana and svedana kriyas in degenerative diseases; title: Reflections of a psychiatrist on ayurvedic therapies; title: Traditional protocols in pañcabhautika diagnosis and treatment; title: Validation of Ayurveda: Limitation of the Current Cross-Cultural Medical Approaches; title: Classical Ayurveda and its modern practice: Study and fieldwork of Ayurveda in India and in America; title: Patterns of encounter between Ayurveda and modern medicine; title: Opportunities and limitations in globalising Ayurveda