Preamble
Series of investigations have been conducted on cancer by carrying out multi-angled studies with inter-disciplinary approaches in order to find out perfect remedy for this most dreadful disease. Scientific researches in medical sciences are devoting their attention towards various aspects and many kinds of cancer.
The growing popularity of Ayurveda in world traditional systems of medicine is supposed to make delivery in preservance or preventive and remedial or curative aspects of cancer having resemblace with clinical entity of Arbuda in Susruta Samhita and other compendia followed by various works devoted to indigenous medicine.
Large number of drugs from botanical, mineral and animal sources is employed in treatment of this disease and allied ailing conditions. Survey has been made of such drugs which are mostly from plant origin as herbal therapy is gaining significance in management of cancer.
Review of anti-cancer drugs from sources of indigenous system has been carried out. Observations have been drawn on drug potentials and their inputs towards remedical measures against cancerous conditions. There are majority of three types of drugs: firstly, the drugs recorded and prescribed in classical texts; secondly, the drugs investigated through experiments and studies; and thirdly, the drugs belonging to ethnobotanicals as reported from field survey and tribal medicine. These indigenous drugs open vast avenue of multidisciplinary work.
ROLE OF INDIGENOUS DRUGS AGAINST CANCER (Pandey, G Abstract of papers, p.29):
First National conference on Use of Indigenous Drugs in the Management of Cancer (3rd-6th. February, 1988), Faculty of Ayurveda, Institute of Medical Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, U.P. India.
Contents
Section I
1-26
Cncerology-oncology
1-6
Oncological concept in Ayurveda
7-16
Studies on anticancer plants and drugs
17-26
Section II
27-127
Herbal drugs useful against cancer
27-46
Some important anticancer herbal drugs
47-121
Classical formulation of Ayurveda useful in cancer
122-126
Appendix
127-134
Who material on cancer
127-129
Bibliography
130-134
Indices
135-153
Plants names (Botanical)
135-143
Drugs names (Ayurveda)
145-153
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