Ayurvedic materia Medica of India Vol 2

This indispensable reference offers comprehensive coverage of the Ayurvedic Medicines used in diseases. This work is a compilation from several standard Persian, Urdu and Sanskrit Medical Works and is an attempt to popularise the use of native drugs. Its object is to give a fun and accurate account of Native Materia Medica and their Therapeutics in simple and popular language, so as to render it useful not only to Medical Students and Practitioners, but also to the public at large. The author has taken great pains to verify carefully the results of his inquiries with a view to render this book thoroughly reliable for the purposes for which it is intended. It is a well known fact that in Hindu Materia Medica almost all well known plants have several synonyms descriptive in many cases of their prominent characters and thus proving a help in their identification. Again almost all well known prescriptions are known by names descriptive of their prominent and specific component drugs.