Materia Medica of Ayurveda - based on Ayurveda Saukhyam of Todarananda. 1980. (Reprint 1987). LVII,711 p. gr8vo.Cloth.

Traditional indigenous systems of medicine are a part of the rich and vast Indian heritage. Handed down through the centuries, they embody the summun boun of knowledge regarding diseases and their cures; a complete pharmacopoeia giving substances and drug preparations and they also include the properties of each substance and its uses. Earlier on, with the practice of Ayurveda falling into untutored and unprincipled hands,the denigration of the whole system was a natural corollary. Ayurvedahas at long last come into its own and has gained wide recognition notonly in the country of its origin; its echoes have come from the distant shores of the new world. This encyclopaedic work has been prepared on the basis of the 8th, 12th and 90th to 97th chapters (a total of tenchapters) of Todarmalla's monumental work on Ayurveda, called Ayurveda Saukhyam.