Medicine, alchemy, health sciences

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

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

Dagmar Wujastyk, Suzanne Newcombe, Christèle Barois

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

Ilona Barbara Kędzia

121-142
Stretching Out Life, Maintaining the Body: Part I - Vayas in Medical Literature

Christèle Barois

37-65
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
Reflections on Rasāyana, Bcud Len and Related Practices in Nyingma (Rnying Ma) Tantric Ritual

Cathy Cantwell

181-203
Rasāyana in Classical Yoga and Āyurveda

Philipp André Maas

66-84
Tibetan Precious Pills as Therapeutics and Rejuvenating Longevity Tonics

Barbara Gerke

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

Anna Sehnalova

143-180
Review of Vargas-O'Bryan and Zhou (eds.), Disease, Religion and Healing in Asia (2015)

Pierce Salguero

R1-R2
Mendicants and Medicine: Āyurveda in Jain Monastic Texts

Mari Jyväsjärvi Stuart

63-100

Medicine, alchemy, health sciences

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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

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

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

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

Yogis, Ayurveda, and Kayakalpa The Rejuvenation of Pandit Malaviya

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

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

Rasāyana in Classical Yoga and Āyurveda

Tibetan Precious Pills as Therapeutics and Rejuvenating Longevity Tonics

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

Tibetan Bonpo Mendrup: The Precious Formula’s Transmission

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

Mendicants and Medicine: Āyurveda in Jain Monastic Texts

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