EJIM 1 (2007)
Wie Jan Houben kürzlich in der Mailing-Liste Indology (5. Juni 2008) mitteilte, gibt es eine neue Online-Zeitschrift: Electronic Journal of Indian Medicine. Vom ersten Band des Jahres 2007 liegen mittlerweile zwei Nummern vor.
Inhalt
Ganesan, S.; Ramar Pandi, N.; Banumathy, N.: Ethnomedicinal Survey of Alagarkoil Hills (Reserved forest), Tamil Nadu, India. - In: Electronic Journal of Indian Medicine. - 1 (2007), issue 1, S. 1-19 [PDF-Format]
Abstract: The ethnomedicinal uses of 111 plant species belonging to 100 genera and 49 families, employed by an ethnic group, the Valaiyans of Alagarkoil Hills of Madurai district, Tamil Nadu, India, in their traditional modes of treatment of diseases, such as skin diseases, colds and coughs, ulcers, stomach
related problems, fevers, piles, jaundice, diabetes, etc., are presented in this paper.
Meulenbeld, G. Jan: The Sarasvatīnighaṇṭu – Review article. - In: Electronic Journal of Indian Medicine. - 1 (2007), issue 1, S. 21-44 [PDF-Format]
Abstract: A review of: Kamat, S.D. (2006) – Studies on medicinal plants and drugs in Sarasvatīnighaṇṭuḥ, originally edited by Late Vd. J.P. Jayatilak in 1918, further edited with notes and discussions by Dr. S.D. Kamat, The Chaukhamba Ayurvijnan Studies 74, Chaukhamba Sanskrit Pratishthan, Delhi.
Yamashita, Tsutomu; Manohar, Ram P.: Memoirs of Vaidyas. The Lives and Practices of Traditional Medical Doctors in Kerala, India (1). - In: Electronic Journal of Indian Medicine. - 1 (2007), issue 2 [erschienen: 2008], S. 45-62 [PDF-Format]
Abstract: This article presents an English translation of interview with a doctor of traditional poison- therapy (viṣavaidya), V*** S*** Nampūtiri (1917~ ) in Kerala, India. The contents of the interview are 1. Background and present circumstances, 2. Textual traditions, 3. Traditional medicines, 4. Treatments, 5. Mantra and reading omens and 6. The canon of viṣavaidya.
Houben, Jan E. M.: Cakrapāṇi-Dāsa’s Abhinavacintāmaṇi: early modern or post-classical Āyurveda? In: Electronic Journal of Indian Medicine. - 1 (2007), issue 2 [erschienen: 2008], S. 63-88 [PDF-Format]
Abstract: In view of the date of the Abhinavacintāmaṇi and the historical phase that can be assumed for Āyurveda and medical knowledge and practice at that time, two questions present themselves: (1) whether, and, if yes, to what extent, this text participates in the new developments in India, and (2) to what extent it participates in the “post-classical” (post-Aṣṭāṅga-hṛdaya) tradition of Āyurveda of more than a millennium.