Kesar has been an important ingredient of the recipes of our ancient physicians in the field of Indian systems of medicine and its cultivation is a monopoly of Jammu and Kashmir. This paper presents in detail the historical review, botanical description, vernacular names, distribution in India and world, cultivation, collection, preservation and storage, adulterants, purity tests, chemical comp...

Ipecacuanha, an ancient Brazilian specific for dysentery, was introduced into Europe by Piso in 1G58. Two years later this drug found its way to India. At first it was little used, but gradually and mainly due to the work of officers of the Indian .Medical Service, it has risen to the position of an amcebacidal specific, more especially when the essential alkaloid emetine is used. Annesley. Twi...

In the second part of the study the author highlights the merits and demerits of the ancient Indian medicine and establishes that the system is more than a physical medicine because of (1) its monumental theoretical generalization reflect a serious preoccupation with life as a process involved in a ceaseless change and; (2) its underlying ideas have permeated both religion and philosophy and cr...

In this paper the author describes heart in relation to its various aspects and of cardiac tonics as found in Ancient Indian literature. This enables the learned scholars and scientists to appraise themselves of some historical facts. clinical exactness and mode of therapy and indigenous drugs advocated by our fore-fathers, which still deserve respectful consideration by true scientists. The de...

This paper presents efficient hardware circuitry for point doubling using square algorithms of Ancient Indian Vedic Mathematics. In order to calculate the square of a number, “Duplex” D property of binary numbers is proposed. A technique for computation of fourth power of a number is also being proposed. A considerable improvement in the point additions and doubling has been observed when imple...

Previous studies on mitochondrial DNA analysis of sheep from different regions of the world have revealed the presence of two major- A and B, and three minor- C, D and E maternal lineages. Lineage A is more frequent in Asia and lineage B is more abundant in regions other than Asia. We have analyzed mitochondrial DNA sequences of 330 sheep from 12 different breeds of India. Neighbor-joining anal...