Healing traditions of the northwestern Himalayas /
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Author / Creator: | Gupta, Pankaj, author. |
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Imprint: | New Delhi ; New York : Springer, [2014] |
Description: | 1 online resource : color illustrations. |
Language: | English |
Series: | SpringerBriefs in environmental science, 2191-5555 SpringerBriefs in environmental science. |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11086227 |
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505 | 0 | |a Prologue -- Chapter 1. The Bountiful Himalayas -- Chapter 2. Health and Folk Medicine -- Chapter 3. Ethnic Food as Medicament -- Chapter 4. Mystic Healers -- Chapter 5. Traditional Herbalists -- Chapter 6. Indigenous Materia Medica -- Epilogue. | |
520 | |a This book discusses the perception of disease, healing concepts and the evolution of traditional systems of healing in the Himalayas of Himachal Pradesh, India. The chapters cover a diverse range issues: people and knowledge systems, healing in ancient scriptures, concept of sacredness and faith healing, food as medicament, presumptions about disease, ethno-botanical aspects of medicinal plants, collection and processing of herbs, traditional therapeutic procedures, indigenous Materia medica, etc. The book also discusses the diverse therapeutic procedures followed by Himalayan healers and thei. | ||
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