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A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c6.8

A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c6.8

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v1.c6.8

Recent times show an undeniable surge of interest in non-Western systems of medicine, that of India included. The mere quantity of books on āyurveda in general and on the Indian medicinal flora in particular bear witness to this development. Unfortunately, their quality lags far behind their quantity. The majority of the authors present a biased, historically unfaithful picture, obscuring some of the facts and thus distorting the truth.