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CatalogueMateria Medica of Tibetan Medicine (with illustrations)/Vaidya Bhagwan Dash. 1994, xxii, 694 p., illustrations, $79.
Contents: Introduction. 1. Drugs belonging to 33 groups (ganas) described in the sutra section (15th chapter of Astanga hrdaya). 2. Supplementary plants. 3. Food and drinks. 4. Animals and animal-products. 5. Tree and its parts. 6. Synonyms and Homonyms. Indices: 1. Tibetan names of drugs etc., with their Sanskrit & Botanical/English equivalents. 2. Sanskrit names of drugs etc., with their Tibetan and Botanical/English equivalents. 3. Botanical/English names of drugs etc., with their Tibetan and Sanskrit equivalents. 4. Therapeutic indications of drugs.
"The present work is divided into six sections.
"Section I deals with drugs belonging to 33 groups (ganas) described in Astanga hrdaya.; Section II deals with other drugs collected from different other sources, which included plants, metals, minerals, gems, jewels and some animal products.; Section III deals with ingredients of food and drinks; Section IV: It deal with animals and animal-products; Section V deals with tree etc., their parts and some technical terms used in medicine; and Section VI deals with synonyms and homonyms of the drugs. At the end, four indices dealing with Tibetan, Sanskrit as well as Botanical/English names of drugs and their therapeutic properties are provided." (jacket)
[Vaidya Bhagwan Dash also wrote Encyclopaedia of Tibetan Medicine, Formulary of Tibetan Medicine and Materia Medica of Ayurveda.] No. 8791