Description

Kashimathiya Bhaishajyavali is a compendium containing 78 chapters, where treatment has been explained for simple diseases like Jwara, Kasa etc. to complicated diseases like Shwasa, Kshaya roga etc. The book contains more than 800 Ayurvedic formulations documented in Sanskrit and multilingual writing by Kashimath Samsthan Seers, aproximately 200 to 300 years ago. 24 combinations are in multilingual languages (Konkani, Malayalam, Tamil etc.). Most of the Sanskrit verses are referred from various Ayurvedic classical books like Charaka Samhita, Astanga Hrudaya etc., Rasagranthas like Rasendrasara Sangraha, Rasaratnakara etc. to the later complied books like Yoga Tarangini, Yoga Chintamani etc. Few references are from books like Hindustani Vaidya Darpana, Hindustani Vaidya Shastra etc., which are not available currently in the public domain. Formulas which were practiced locally by various Vaidyas, which have no reference, are included in this book under the title Boudha Vaidya or Anubhavika. This manuscript from Kashimath Samsthan Archives is being published so that the vast knowledge gets preserved and passed on to the future generations for its best utilization. The formulas in the book have a broad scope for research and development.

Literary Research: This book has a long history of compilation and hence there are unidentified source of plants and names of diseases. Hence to get a better understanding of the formulations, elobarations can be done to identify and authenticate to botanical source and corelations regarding the disease.

Pharmaceutical Research: The process for all pharmaceutical procedures can be standardized adopting the current aids and systems available, in order to get uniformity in effect of the products.

Clinical research: The clinical research is the crux of any system of medicine. The clinical research includes the diagnostics and therapeutics. The formulations mentioned in the treatise can be prepared methodically and employed in physico chemical, experimental and clinical studies to get a scientific validation of evidence for the safety and therapeutic benefit of the formulations.

From the above deliberations, it becomes clear that there is tremendous demand for the research activity. For the good of the humanity and the need of the hour, it is essential to pursue a scientific and rational approach towards the development of the Ayurveda system of medicine.