Medicine, alchemy, health sciences

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Articles with material on medical history, health sciences, āyurveda, and alchemy.

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Shifting the Paradigm A Vizir’s Persian Handbook of Āyurveda in Sixteenth-century India

Fabrizio Speziale

95-125
Review: Barbara Gerke, Taming the Poisonous: Mercury, Toxicity, and Safety in Tibetan Medical Practices (Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing, 2021)

Tawni Tidwell
Elements of the Buddhist Medical System

Federico Divino

22-62
Review: Minakshi Menon (ed.), Indigenous Knowledges and Colonial Sciences in South Asia (South Asian History and Culture, special issue, vol. 13, n. 1, 2022)

Sabrina Datoo

R12-R15
Review: Anthony Cerulli, The Practice of Texts: Education and Healing in South India (Oakland: University of California Press, 2022)

Venera Khalikova

R8-R11
Review: Dagmar Wujastyk and Christèle Barois (eds.), The Usman Report (1923): Translations of Regional Submissions (Groningen, Netherlands: Barkhuis & Groningen University Library, 2022)

Sarah Qidwai

R5-R7
Making Gems in Indian Alchemical Literature

Dagmar Wujastyk

1-21
Review: James McHugh, An Unholy Brew: Alcohol in Indian History and Religions (New York, Oxford University Press, 2021)

Vitus Angermeier

R1--R4
The Seasons in Ancient Indian Medicine Long Winters or Extensive Rains?

Vitus Angermeier

247-271
Three Versions of Crow Omens

Kenneth Zysk

235-246
The Evidence for Hospitals in Early India

Dominik Wujastyk

1-43
Doṣas by the Numbers Buddhist Contributions to the Origins of the Tridoṣa-theory in Early Indian Medical Literature with Comparisons to Early Greek Theories of the Humours

Kenneth G. Zysk

1-29
Rasāyana and Rasaśāstra in the Persian Medical Culture of South Asia

Fabrizio Speziale

1-41
Premodern Yoga Traditions and Ayurveda Preliminary Remarks on Shared Terminology, Theory and Praxis

Jason Eric Birch

1-83
Acts of Improvement On the Use of Tonics and Elixirs in Sanskrit Medical and Alchemical Literature

Dagmar Wujastyk

1-36
Rasāyana in Classical Yoga and Āyurveda

Philipp André Maas

66-84
Reflections on Rasāyana, Bcud Len and Related Practices in Nyingma (Rnying Ma) Tantric Ritual

Cathy Cantwell

181-203
The Flame and the Breeze Life and Longevity Practices in Three Bengali Sufi Texts from the Long Seventeenth Century

Projit Bihari Mukharji

234-264
Tibetan Precious Pills as Therapeutics and Rejuvenating Longevity Tonics

Barbara Gerke

204-233
Tibetan Bonpo Mendrup: The Precious Formula’s Transmission

Anna Sehnalova

143-180
Transmutations: Rejuvenation, Longevity, and Immortality Practices in South and Inner Asia Introduction

Dagmar Wujastyk, Suzanne Newcombe, Christèle Barois

i-xvii
Stretching Out Life, Maintaining the Body: Part I - Vayas in Medical Literature

Christèle Barois

37-65
Mastering Deathlessness Some Remarks on Kaṟpam Preparations in the Medico-Alchemical Literature of the Tamil Siddhas

Ilona Barbara Kędzia

121-142
Yogis, Ayurveda, and Kayakalpa The Rejuvenation of Pandit Malaviya

Suzanne Newcombe

85-120
Review of Vargas-O'Bryan and Zhou (eds.), Disease, Religion and Healing in Asia (2015)

Pierce Salguero

R1-R2

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Medicine, alchemy, health sciences

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Shifting the Paradigm A Vizir’s Persian Handbook of Āyurveda in Sixteenth-century India

Review: Barbara Gerke, Taming the Poisonous: Mercury, Toxicity, and Safety in Tibetan Medical Practices (Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing, 2021)

Elements of the Buddhist Medical System

Review: Minakshi Menon (ed.), Indigenous Knowledges and Colonial Sciences in South Asia (South Asian History and Culture, special issue, vol. 13, n. 1, 2022)

Review: Anthony Cerulli, The Practice of Texts: Education and Healing in South India (Oakland: University of California Press, 2022)

Review: Dagmar Wujastyk and Christèle Barois (eds.), The Usman Report (1923): Translations of Regional Submissions (Groningen, Netherlands: Barkhuis & Groningen University Library, 2022)

Making Gems in Indian Alchemical Literature

Review: James McHugh, An Unholy Brew: Alcohol in Indian History and Religions (New York, Oxford University Press, 2021)

The Seasons in Ancient Indian Medicine Long Winters or Extensive Rains?

Three Versions of Crow Omens

The Evidence for Hospitals in Early India

Doṣas by the Numbers Buddhist Contributions to the Origins of the Tridoṣa-theory in Early Indian Medical Literature with Comparisons to Early Greek Theories of the Humours

Rasāyana and Rasaśāstra in the Persian Medical Culture of South Asia

Premodern Yoga Traditions and Ayurveda Preliminary Remarks on Shared Terminology, Theory and Praxis

Acts of Improvement On the Use of Tonics and Elixirs in Sanskrit Medical and Alchemical Literature

Rasāyana in Classical Yoga and Āyurveda

Reflections on Rasāyana, Bcud Len and Related Practices in Nyingma (Rnying Ma) Tantric Ritual

The Flame and the Breeze Life and Longevity Practices in Three Bengali Sufi Texts from the Long Seventeenth Century

Tibetan Precious Pills as Therapeutics and Rejuvenating Longevity Tonics

Tibetan Bonpo Mendrup: The Precious Formula’s Transmission

Transmutations: Rejuvenation, Longevity, and Immortality Practices in South and Inner Asia Introduction

Stretching Out Life, Maintaining the Body: Part I - Vayas in Medical Literature

Mastering Deathlessness Some Remarks on Kaṟpam Preparations in the Medico-Alchemical Literature of the Tamil Siddhas

Yogis, Ayurveda, and Kayakalpa The Rejuvenation of Pandit Malaviya

Review of Vargas-O'Bryan and Zhou (eds.), Disease, Religion and Healing in Asia (2015)

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