Index of Herbs in Languages

About the Author Dr. S. Chidambara Thanu Pillai born in 1934 belongs to a family of Siddha Medical Practitioners for 46 generations in Eraniel Kanyakumari District. He has made yeras of research on Siddha Medical Literature, and produced about 60 books on Siddha Medicine in English and Tamil.

Further he has been doing extensive research on ancient palm leaves, left by his fore-fathers and has written more than 40 books on Thanuology (Varmam) in both Tamil and English.

Being a Yogi, he has produced 4 books on Yoga. He is a graduate in Arts, Commerce and Law, and a Post-graduate Diploma holder of the Institute of Purchasing and Supplies, London.

He has Membership with All India Bar Council, New Delhi, and Institute of Purchasing and Supplies, London. He is an Advocate and Notary Public. He has served a number of years in different capacities in Southern Raiway, B.H.E.L., and M.P.T. He has authored about 20 books an inventory Management.

He is a Director of International Institute of Materials Management, E-32, Anna Nagar (East), Chennai-600 102, which conducts 2 years Inventory Management Course by Correspondence. He is the Founder and Managing Director of Thanu Foundation, Chennai-600 102, which administers a number of Educational Institutions including international Institute of Thanuology, International Open Academy of Siddha Medical Sciences and Siddha Medical Literature Research Centre, Chennai-600 102. He is responsible for conducting a number of Correspondence Courses. He has participated in the Il world Tamil Conference at Chennai in 1968, exhibiting hundreds of ancient palm leaves on Siddha Medical Sciences, inherited from his fore fathers. He has also had the distinction of having attended and conducting a number of seminars and workshops on various subjects.

Preface Nature has created innumerable trees, shrubs, climbers and herbs. Siddhars were not only pioneers in using metals and minerals as medicine, but also pioneers in using drugs of vegetable origin. They lived away from the common folk in isolated places (Hermitage) on high altitude mountains, surrounded by plants. Therefore they must have been well acquainted with plants than any other elements on earth. This can be well supported by the monumental collection of Malai Vagadam.

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