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DECODING AGNI: CONCEPTUAL INSIGHTS AND CLINICAL RELEVANCE IN AYURVEDA
Background: Agni is a fundamental principle in Ayurveda and is regarded as the cornerstone of digestion, metabolism, and physiological homeostasis. It governs the transformation of ingested food into bioavailable nutrients required for the nourishment of body tissues (Dhatus), ma...
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GRANTHI ROGA IN AYURVEDA A REVIEW WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO LIPOMA
Granthi Roga occupies a well-defined place in classical Ayurvedic surgical literature as a localized, encapsulated swelling arising from the vitiation of Doṣa acting upon Dhātu, most often Meda (fat tissue), with obstruction of the Srotas (micro-channels). Among its subtypes, Med...
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Ayurveda describes Agni, the digestive fire, as the central determinant of nutrition, immunity, and longevity, while contemporary biomedicine has identified the gut microbiome as a comparably central regulator of host metabolism, barrier integrity, and systemic immunity. Both fra...
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ROLE OF AHARA, VIHARA AND ACHARA IN VAJIKARANA
Vajikarana, an eugenics of the ancient medical science, is getting priority among the present day health systems. Vajikarana has elaborated and appraised contexts in Ayurveda as a standard system of sexual personality development along with the prime cause of developing healthy o...
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Background: Agada Tantra, one of the eight classical branches of Ayurveda (Ashtanga Ayurveda), deals with toxicology and the management of poisons. Ancient Ayurvedic scholars described comprehensive principles regarding Visha (poison), its classification, pathogenesis, diagnosis,...
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Solanum nigrum is a medicinal plant containing a wide variety of bioactive substances that can be used for various biomedical applications. The purpose of this article is to analyze the phytochemicals present in the hexane and methanol leaf extracts of S. nigrum using GC-MS and L...
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Shunti (Zingiber officinale Roscoe), the dried rhizome of ginger, is an important medicinal drug widely used in Ayurveda for its Deepana, Pachana, Vatakaphahara and numerous therapeutic properties. The quality, safety and efficacy of Shunti depend upon its proper identification,...
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EVIDENCE OF SURGICAL INNOVATION IN AYURVEDA: A REVIEW OF SHALYA TANTRA METHODOLOGY
The foundational architecture of operative medicine finds its earliest systematic expression in the classical traditions of Ayurveda, prominently championed by Acharya Sushruta. Venerated across medical history as the foundational pioneer of reconstructive, aesthetic, and plastic...
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Ayurveda describes Agni, the digestive fire, as the central determinant of nutrition, immunity, and longevity, while contemporary biomedicine has identified the gut microbiome as a comparably central regulator of host metabolism, barrier integrity, and systemic immunity. Both fra...
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A LITERARY REVIEW OF LAGHU MALINI VASANTA RASA IN CLASSICAL AYURVEDIC TEXTS
Laghu Malini Vasanta Rasa (LMVR) is one of the most renowned Kharaliya Rasayana formulations described in classical Rasashastra. It is widely indicated in Jeerna Jwara, Rajayakshma, Pradara, Grahani, Dhatukshaya, and other chronic debilitating disorders. Despite its widespread th...
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Ayurveda defines health as a state of physical, mental, social and spiritual well-being, going beyond the mere absence of disease. Among the causative factors of disease described in Ayurvedic classics, Manasika Hetu (psychological/mental causative factors) occupy a distinct and...
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Manyastambha is described in Ayurveda as a Vata- Kaphaja disorders affecting the cervical region, characteried by pain (Ruk), stiffness (Stambha), and restricted neck movements. These clinical features closely resemble cervical spondylosis, degenerative disorder of the cervical s...
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ENGINEERING CELL DEATH PATHWAYS FOR CANCER THERAPY: EMERGING CONCEPTS IN APOPTOSIS AND AUTOPHAGY
Cancer is characterised by resistance to programmed cell death, and of the various known cell death mechanisms, apoptosis and autophagy continue to be the most well characterised and treatable. The molecular architecture of the intrinsic and extrinsic apoptotic pathways, the fund...
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AYURVEDIC MANAGEMENT OF ICHTHYOSIS VULGARIS (EKKUSHTA): A CASE REPORT
Ichthyosis Vulgaris is the most common hereditary disorder of keratinisation, characterised by dry, rough skin with fine, adherent, fish-scale-like desquamation, most prominent over the extensor aspects of the extremities. Conventional management with emollients and keratolytic o...
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PHYTOCHEMICAL SCREENING OF METHANOLIC EXTRACT OF INDIGENOUS MOMORDICA CHARANTIA FRUITS
Momordica charantia L., commonly known as bitter gourd or bitter melon, is an important indigenous medicinal and edible plant belonging to the family Cucurbitaceae. The plant has a long history of traditional use in various systems of medicine, particularly in the management of m...
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AYURVEDIC MANAGEMENT OF ICHTHYOSIS VULGARIS (EKKUSHTA): A CASE REPORT
Ichthyosis Vulgaris is the most common hereditary disorder of keratinisation, characterised by dry, rough skin with fine, adherent, fish-scale-like desquamation, most prominent over the extensor aspects of the extremities. Conventional management with emollients and keratolytic o...
- Materials & EnergyOpen access
GREEN SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF ZnFe2O4 NANOPARTICLES USING TRITICUM AESTIVUM EXTRACT
Zinc ferrite (ZnFe₂O₄) nanoparticles have attracted considerable attention due to their distinctive physicochemical properties, chemical stability, magnetic behaviour, and potential applications in pharmaceutical and biomedical fields. Green synthesis of nanoparticles using plant...
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Vishwachi is one of the Vata pradhana vyadhi which affects the kandara (tendons) of anguli(fingers), tala(palms) and bahu prushta(dorsal surface of arm) leading to reduction in function of upper limbs (bahu karma kshayakari).[1] In contemporary science, this disease can be corela...
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Introduction: Avascular Necrosis (AVN) of the femoral head, also known as osteonecrosis, is a progressively disabling disorder of young and middle-aged adults in which interruption of the blood supply to the femoral head leads to bone-cell death, subchondral collapse, and seconda...
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PARADA MALAHARA - A CRITICAL REVIEW IN THE MANAGEMENT OF VRANA
Malahara is a semi-solid topical dosage form described in Ayurveda pharmaceutics that is used externally in variousconditions and disorders. Vrana is one of the conditions which can be correlated to wound. In the present time, management ofchronic, non- healing wounds remains a p...