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Healing Traditions of the Northwestern Himalayas

Part of the SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-81-322-1925-5

ISBN: 978-81-322-1924-8

Publisher: Springer India - Springer Journals

Jul 1, 2014

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The Bountiful Himalayas

Gupta, Pankaj; Sharma, Vijay Kumar; Sharma, Sushma

Pages: 1 –19

[The indigenous wisdom and practices remained the basis of subsistence of traditional mountain communities. Rich in bio-resources and indigenous knowledge, the Himalayan region is truly a sacred land, where nature has conferred its unrivaled treasure to its inhabitants. From the times of yore,...
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Health and Folk Medicine

Gupta, Pankaj; Sharma, Vijay Kumar; Sharma, Sushma

Pages: 21 –35

[The effort to realize and uphold an optimum state of health has always drilled the minds of men and as a result, a number of healing systems have evolved around the world. Communities have devised systems to alleviate the tiresome condition arising out of illnesses using their own technique,...
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Ethnic Food as Medicament

Gupta, Pankaj; Sharma, Vijay Kumar; Sharma, Sushma

Pages: 37 –59

[The idea of ‘food as medicament’ is deep-rooted in the primitive therapeutic traditions of all societies. Food habits are the ways in which individuals or communities, in response to the social and cultural stresses select, eat and use available foods. The North-Western Himalayas having wide...
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Mystic Healers

Gupta, Pankaj; Sharma, Vijay Kumar; Sharma, Sushma

Pages: 61 –81

[Communities have diverse sensitivities regarding the cause of diseases and these impersonations took years to develop and still prevail in the region. People believe that evil spirits are the root cause of large number of human sufferings which often appear in the form of diseases and these...
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Traditional Herbalists

Gupta, Pankaj; Sharma, Vijay Kumar; Sharma, Sushma

Pages: 83 –120

[North-Western Himalayas are the treasure house of medicinal plants. For several generations, the local inhabitants have been collecting plants to use them as medicine. The plant gatherers have different sets of techniques for herb extraction. In case of disease, the people, visit traditional...
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Indigenous Materia Medica

Gupta, Pankaj; Sharma, Vijay Kumar; Sharma, Sushma

Pages: 121 –135

[Medicinal plants of North-western Himalayas with superb curative properties mentioned in the indigenous Materia Medica, are finding application in modern bio-pharmaceuticals. But, due to lack of information regarding the identification, classification and therapeutic values, the knowledge on the...

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