ABSTRACT
In the treasure of Ayurvedic literature, many texts are missing or partially available. Only references or few verses from many such texts are mentioned in later texts. Unfortunately, a large number of Ayurvedic texts are unexplored till today are likely to exist in palm-leaf manuscripts, which are decaying or undergoing permanent annihilation. As such many unique and valuable information contained in these texts are being lost. Though several Institutions have taken up work on literary Research, only few texts have been published during past decades. The present paper highlights the salient features of the text 'Cikitsarnava' authored by Visvanath Sena of 16th century of Orissa. Though his text on Pathyapathya has already been published, which has got a place in the pages of history of Ayurveda, a very little is known about this important text on therapeutics. Various aspects of this text and its author have been discussed to bring it in to the knowledge of fraternity of Ayurvedic physicians and Sanskrit scholars.
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Manuscripts, Medical as Topic/history , Medicine, Ayurvedic/history , History, 16th Century , History, 19th Century , Humans , Therapeutics/history , TranslationsABSTRACT
A Clinical trial of Indigenous compound drug 'Nishamalaki' was carried out in the CRI (Ayurveda) Hospital, Jaipur on the patient of Madhumeha. For this study, patients were randomly divided into two groups of 25 individuals each and they were termed as group A and B. The individuals of group a were administered Nishamalaki in a dose of one gram twice daily along with diet control, the patients were followed every fort nightly. A significant improvement in the symptoms along with lowering of blood glucose level was observed in the individuals of group B, while the individuals of group A responded initially but could not sustain the same.
