Hindu Medicine c5.s3.66

c5.s3.66

Many problems of Hindu materia medica might be cleared up by Western botanists and doctors, were they to work on the spot with the assistance of Hindu medical men, and with the people of the countryside, foresters, shepherds, peasants, who supply Hindu doctors with the needed drugs. The particular values of many of these ingredients might be determined by the careful identification of single items of the invariably complex recipes, and by ascertaining the proper action of each separate item.