Home Remedies

Even before Charaka compiled the Samhita his treatise on Ayurveda in the second century B.C. women and men were using herbs from their kitchens fields and forests to alleviate pain and cure sickness. But with the coming of Western medicine such indigenous practices were condemned out of court as 'unscientific'. This book the outcome of over three decades of journeying and interactions with barely recognized vaids ohjas and small community physicians attempts to document these practices while pre...See More