[INDOLOGY] Ayurvedic query

[James Hartzell]

Many thanks to Dipak Bhattacharya for the article, the pointers, and to
Dominik for the clarifications on the nomenclature -- this should all be
quite useful for my colleague.

Cheers
james

On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 8:19 AM, Dipak Bhattacharya <dipak.d2004 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear Dr. Hartzell,
> The pdf is attached. A caution --
> When the paper was sent to the publisher Windows did not furnish one with
> all the diacritics. So, for the diacritics and only the diacritics, I had
> to use the Indian processor i-Leap which is now obsolete and not Windows
> compliant.  But since this is a pdf I hope that the diacritics will be
> readable in Windows 7 or higher versions.
> If the diacritics prove to be prohibitive I will edit some MSWord format
> of the paper that I preserved making them Windows compatible and then
> resend the matter to you
> But please let me know the result.
> Best wishes
> DB
>
> On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 5:16 PM, James Hartzell <james.hartzell at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello
>> Yes, that could be useful;  might you send me a pdf of the article?
>> Thanks
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 12:43 PM, Dipak Bhattacharya <
>> dipak.d2004 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> <Is there anything in Ayurvedic medicine texts on the value of plant
>>> nectar as a medicinal material ?>
>>> ku.s.tha = saussurea lappa has been termed am.rta in the Atharvaveda. It
>>> is said to grow in heaven which was none other than the Kullu district in
>>> the Himachal Pradesh. According to the AV this was to be used as an
>>> anti-piretic drug. Its utility was forgotten later and is now used for
>>> indigestion by traditional physicians in the Himachal Pradesh..  The matter
>>> was brought to notice by me in 2005 -- Indische Kultur im Kontext
>>> Harrassowitz Verlag Wiesbaden:9-29.
>>> Will this be useful?
>>> Best
>>> DB
>>>
>>> On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 4:45 PM, James Hartzell <james.hartzell at gmail.com
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> A colleague in agriculture has asked the following questions:
>>>>
>>>> Is there anything in Ayurvedic medicine texts on the value of plant
>>>> nectar as a medicinal material ?
>>>>
>>>> Is there anything in Ayurvedic texts on plants versus liver flukes of
>>>> cattle or bilharzia, the human equivalent, which the ancient Egyptians
>>>> suffered from?
>>>>
>>>> Do any of the Ayurveda Pandits on the list have suggestions/information
>>>> on these?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>>
>>>> James Hartzell, PhD
>>>> Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC)
>>>> The University of Trento, Italy
>>>>
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>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> James Hartzell, PhD
>> Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC)
>> The University of Trento, Italy
>>
>
>


-- 
James Hartzell, PhD
Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC)
The University of Trento, Italy


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