Medicine, alchemy, health sciences

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  Humours and their Legacy in Early Buddhist Medicine Revisiting the Indo-European Foundation of Medical Conceptions in the Pāli Canon

  Federico Divino

  1-49
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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
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  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
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  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
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  The Seasons in Ancient Indian Medicine Long Winters or Extensive Rains?

  Vitus Angermeier

  247-271
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  Three Versions of Crow Omens

  Kenneth Zysk

  235-246
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  The Evidence for Hospitals in Early India

  Dominik Wujastyk

  1-43
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  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
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  Rasāyana and Rasaśāstra in the Persian Medical Culture of South Asia

  Fabrizio Speziale

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

  Jason Eric Birch

  1-83

• 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

• 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