RASA-PANCHAKA: (Ayurvedic Principles of Drug-Action)

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Item Code:	IDG226
Author:	Dr. S. C. Dhyani
Publisher:	Chowkhamba Krishnadas Academy
Language:	English
Edition:	2003
ISBN:	9788121801257
Pages:	162
Cover:	Paperback
Other Details	8.5"X5.5"
Weight	150 gm

Book Description

Foreword:

Despite rapid advancing theories in modern pharmacology; much remains to be said about Drug versus Disease, pharmacokinestics, bio-transformation, selective affinity of drugs to a particular cell or system and so on. Ayurvedic pharmacological principles offer new fields of research and re-orient the basis of drug-therapy.

There is much similarity in the Ayurvedic and modern pharmacology. Various factors influence the drug-action at the molecular level and even though the exact mechanism of drug-action is not yet fully known to modern pharmacology, they explain it one the basis of ionisation, polarity, inter atomic distances, stearic structure and isomerism, which fairly correspond to Rasa, Vipaka, Guna, Veerya and Prabhava, respectively.

CONTENTS

		Page No.
1. Introductory Considerations
	Definition and scope of Dravya	5
	How the drug acts?	6
	Actions or Effects of Drugs	7
	Potency of Drugs	9
	Pharmacokintetics	11
	Site of action	13
	Route of administration	15
	Time of drug administration	17
	Mode of action	18
	Vriddhi and Kshaya	19
	Poshyabhava-Poshakabhava-Agni	21
	Local, General and Remote actions	22
	Elective Affinity of Drugs	23
	Results of Drug Therapy	24
	Drug Therapy	25
	Anupana (Vehicle)	30
2. Treat the man as a whole and Give the drug as a whole		32
	Treat the man as a whole	32
	Give the drug as a whole	37
3. Rasa Definition-Description-Determination		43
	Review of Literature	43
4. The origin of six Rasas Vis a Vis The origin of life		46
	i Cycle of the evolution of Rasas	48
	i Cycle of Rasas	48
	ii Cycle of Rasas	52
	iii Cycle of Rasas (Physiological Cycle)	52
	The importance of the Rasas	55
	Definition of Rasa	56
	The kinds or number of taste	56
	Specific characteristic of Six Rasas	61
	Amla Rasa	62
	Actions of Amla	62
	Lavana Rasa	63
	Katu Rasa	63
	Tikta Rasa	64
	Kashaya Rasa	64
	The mechanism of taste	65
	Problems	65
	Solutions to the problems	65
	Tables showing the Rasa of drugs	66
	Method to determine the Taste-threshold	68
	Classification of the intensity of taste	76
	Ecological effects on taste-threshold	86
5. Vipaka (Determination of digestion and metabolism of substances)		88
	Definition of Vipaka	89
	Avasthapaka and Nisthapaka	89
	Kinds of Vipaka	90
	Trividha Vipaka	92
	Vipaka at the level of Agnis	94
	How to determine Vipaka	96
	Practical works and conclusions	97
6. Gunas (Qualities of drugs)		99
	Guna	101
	Definition of Guna	101
	Adhyatmika Gunas	101
	Gurvadi Gunas	102
	Paradi Gunas	102
	Visista Gunas	102
	Twenty Sharira gunas and Six types of Treatment	107
	Santarpana Treatment	107
	Apatarpana Treatment	107
7. Veerya (Potency of drugs)		110
	Definition and scope of Veerya	111
	Kinds of Veerya	112
	How to determine Veerya	114
	Some experimental studies on Veerya	118
8. Prabhava and Medicaments		123
9. Medicaments (Identification of drugs, assessment of their
	properties & evaluation of their actions)	127
	Name and N. O. of drugs	129
	Controversy in Identification	131
	Physical and chemical properties	131
	Therapeutic actions	132
	Habitat	135
	Method of preservation	136
	Pharmaceutical processing of it's preparation	136
	Dosage	136
	Clinical trials and results	137
	Trials on healthy volunteers and patients	138
	Gorakhaganja (Avera lanata)	140
	When a drug is given, a risk is taken	141
10. Alphabetic list of drugs and their parts used		144

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