A glimpse of Ayurveda – The forgotten history and principles of Indian traditional medicine
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This review aims to bring into limelight the age old history and the basic principles of Ayurveda to help the budding scholars, researchers and practitioners gain deeper perspicuity of traditional systems of medicine, facilitate strengthening of the commonalities and overcome the challenges towards their global acceptance and harmonization of such medicinal systems.About:
This article is published in Journal of Traditional and Complementary Medicine.The article was published on 2017-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 130 citations till now.read more
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