Elephantology and its Ancient Sanskrit Sources
by Geetha N. | 2012 | 36,369 words
Elephant is considered as an inevitable part of Indian community. So they developed the study of Elephant which is based on Hastyayurveda and Matangalila. Even from the ancient time Indians were awareness about their hygiene and health. They were protected against diseases. They protected not just their own race but also plants and animals. Therefo...
Appendix 1 - Glossary Of Technical Terms
| Medicinal terms | Description | |
| Ance | - | Common skin disease which is marked by pimples |
| Antidote | - | A medicine that counteracts poison |
| Aphrodisiac- | - | An agent that is alleged to increase libide orthe duration of sexual activity |
| Asthma | - | A cronic disorder of the respiratory organs, marked by coughs laboured breathening and feeling of suffocation |
| Astrigent | - | having power to contract organic tissues |
| Cataract | - | Opacity of the lens of the eye |
| Constipation | - | Irregular and difficult defecation |
| Consumption | - | Tuberculosis |
| Decoction | - | Extract of anything got by boiling |
| Diarrhoea | - | Abnormal frequent passage of loose stools |
| Dropsy | - | Generalized accumulation of fluid in the body |
| Enema | - | An introduction of a liquid into the rectum to stimulate bowel activity |
| Epileptic | - | A person suffering from a nervous disease |
| Indralupta | - | The hairs fallen as round from the head |
| Kunimartantra | - | Sterilizing women |
| Leucoderma | - | Local or total absence of pigmentation in the skin |
| Piles | - | Swollen blood vessels at the anus hemorrhoids |
| Purgation | - | Evacuation of the bowel by a purgative |
| Pustules | - | A small circumscribed elevation of the skin |
| Rheumatism | - | Painful condition of the muscles and joints |
| Rhematioid | - | Resembling rheumatic stiffness of body etc. |
| Sterilization | - | To free from micro organisms |
| Vertigo | - | Dizziness in the head. |