Bioethics, which is the title of this national conference, is a term that implies far more than medical ethics which dominates its sessions. What is bioethics? It is no more and no less than the ethics of living or ethics of life, which evolved from non-life over millions of years. Humans are a product of the evolutionary process like all other species, but they are unique insofar as they not o...

Mother and child care has been described in great detail in Ayurveda. All basic principles of Ayurveda need to be applied to deal with the problems of maternal and foetal mortality. Rules of Ahara (diet), Vihara (lifestyle), Sadavrutta (moral conduct), along with varied therapies are used in tackling the various problems. There is need to take an in depth view at causes. Major changes in lifest...

Acquired Immuno Deficiency syndrome (AIDS) has emerged as a real threat for mankind since last decade. Lack of knowledge and awareness about AIDS is an important factor responsible for rte rapid spread of the disease. Ayurveda as a part of its holistic approach offers the concepts of Achara Rasayana and sadvrta i.e good conduct for the self and for society. Such concepts can prevent the disease...

The deschptions, etio-pathology and some aspects of treatment of the seizure disorders in the three Indian Systems of Medicine, namely The Siddha, The Ayurveda and The Unani are briefly mentioned. "If more or less, three humors cause disease, The learned count the wind is the first of these."Medicine, Thirukkural.

Students of Ayurveda and qualified Ayurveda practitioners were assessed for awareness about bibliographic databases. One hundred and four volunteers (age range 17-64 years; group mean±SD, 24.3 ± 7.9 years; 62 females) participated in this cross-sectional study. There were 3 groups. Group I had 60 undergraduate students of a bachelor's level course in Ayurveda, Group II had 20 graduate students ...

A new drug KARI is unravelled in Ayurveda; it is botanically identified and equated with Canthium parciflorum Lamk. The intricacies involved in, Ayurveda for arriving at the identification are discussed in detail; a brief botanical description with a plate of the herbarium specimen are provided.

One of the most significant developments of 2009, indeed, medically speaking, of the millennium, has been the formation of the Global Alliance for Non-Communicable Diseases.[1] The Alliance has been established by agreement between the heads of the world’s top agencies directing publicly funded medical research: the US National Institutes of Health, the UK’s Medical Research Council (MRC), simi...

Introduction: Gandhaka Jarana is intermediate procedure for the therapeutic mercurial preparations in Ayurveda Rasashastra. For Gandhaka Jarana numerous procedures were mentioned in the classical texts of Rasashastra. Here, Shadguna Balijarita Makaradhwaja prepared in classical Valuka Yantra by adopting one of the method of Gandhaka Jarana. Objective: To prepare Shadguna Balijarita Makaradhwaja...

The rationale for the thought of an appropriate strategy for social health, issues from the failiure to provide health with social Justice. Too much has been said and done along a devious path by the dominant class, that, increasing marginal rate of disutility threatens the very existence of man. A modest attempt has been made here to expose the corrosion in values and priorities and as to what...

This contribution lists all translations into Western languages of ancient works on Ayurveda, Found by the author through searches in various university libraries and other sources.