%0 Journal Article
%T Botanical identification of plants described in M─dhava Cikits─ for the treatment of diarrhoea
%A Debendranath Mishra
%A Niteen Ramdas Salve
%J Archive of "Ancient Science of Life".
%D 2016
%R 10.4103/0257-7941.188179
%X M─dhava is regarded as a 7th century Indian Physician who composed two treatises (in Sanskrit) on Ayurveda, the M─dhava Nid─na and M─dhava Cikits─. The former treatise deals with the diagnosis of diseases while the latter with the treatment using medicinal plants and other recipes. In M─dhava Cikits─, a common Sanskrit name is found to describe two or more totally different botanical plant species (thus leading to ambiguity) and a distinct botanical species is also found to represent two or more Sanskrit names at several instances
%K Atis─ra Cikits─
%K botanical identification
%K diarrhoea
%K M─dhava Cikits─
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4995852/