Ayurvedic Medicine, Dissertations and Theses

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Edlund, Denielle Marie. 2003. Reiki and its Effect on the Chakras, as Measured by the Aurastar Imaging Device. DigitalCommons@UConn. http://digitalcommons.uconn.edu/uchcgs_masters/50.

Islam, Md. Nazrul. 2008. Repackaging ayurveda in post-colonial India revivalism and global commodification. University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong). http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/view/B39848991/ft.pdf.

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Abraham, Natalia. 2003. Ayurveda and religion in Canada: a critical look at New Age Ayurveda from the Indian diaspora perspective. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=79815.

Ajibade, Adewale. 2008. Analysis of the polar extract of Mucuna pruriens (L.) DC. seed. Thesis (M. Sc. Biopharmacy)King's College London, 2008.

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Bahulkar, S. S. 1994. Medical ritual in the Atharvaveda tradition. Pune: Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth.

Bandekar, Pooja Prakash. 2008. Insight into the toxicity of indolo 2, 1-b quinazolin-6, 12-dione (tryptanthrin) against escherichia coli.

Bardach, Naomi. 1997. Ayurveda in America and India.

Battle, James. 2005. Ayurveda in translation: one cross-cultural narrative.

Beattie, Angela Gwen. 2004. How do your babies grow? Infant massage, media, markets, and medicine in North India.

Bhargava, Nina Aruna. 1991. The impact of colonialism on Ayurvedic medicine in India.

Biswas, Dipak Kumar. 1971. Pediatrics at the period of the Caraka Samhita. Düsseldorf: Institute of History of Medicine, University of Düsseldorf.

Boas, Lucy A. 1992. Ayurveda in the United States: fad, fraud or fantastic healing system? Amherst, Mass: publisher not identified.

Bodeker, Gerard C. 1988. Planning and training for indigenous health services: implications from India's experience with Ayurveda. Qualifying paperHarvard Graduate School of Education, 1988.

Boes, Ragnhild. 1991. Mothers' adjustment after childbirth: examining effects of the Mother Baby program of Maharishi Vedic Approach to Health on mothers' postpartum health and recovery. Ann Arbor, Mich: Dissertation Information Service.

Brooks, Adam Guy. 2004. The professionalization of complementary medicine.

Bruns, Prudence, and Kaṇāda. 2007. Nāḍīvijñāna: the crest-jewel of Ayurveda : a translation of six central texts and an examination of the sources, influence and development of Indian pulse-diagnosis. Thesis (Ph.D.)-- University of California at Berkeley, 2007.

Buys, Jennifer. 1999. I sing the body electric: Ayurvedic and traditional Chinese energetics.

Callaghan, Michael Mather. 2006. Medical pluralism on Mount Everest. Thesis (M.A.)University of Alberta, 2006.

Cerulli, Anthony. 2012. Somatic lessons: narrating patienthood and illness in Indian medical literature. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press.

Cerulli, Anthony Michael. 2007. Somatic lessons: myth and the body in Sanskrit medical literature. Thesis (Ph. D.)University of Chicago, Faculty of the Divinity School, August 2007.

Chawla, Simran. 1998. The science of medicine and the science of life: a cpomparative study of the various aspects of western biomedicine and ayurveda. Place of publication not identified: publisher not identified.

Collier, Guy Edward Parker. 2013. "This science is still here": Ayurveda on New Zealand's medical periphery.

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Dash, Bhagwan. 1980. Tibetan medicine: with special reference to yoga Śataka. Dharamsala: Library of Tibetan Works and Archives.

Davis, Kimberly C. 2012. Analytical method development design for the determination of heavy metals in ayrvedic i.e. ayurvedic products by ICPMS. Thesis (M.S.)University of North Carolina Wilmington, 2012. http://dl.uncw.edu/etd/2012-3/davisk/kimberlydavis.pdf.

Davis, Silver Lee. 1998. Chakra acupuncture.

Durkin-Longley, Maureen. 1982. Ayurveda in Nepal: a medical belief system in action. Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms.

Ehrlicman, Dave. 1998. The lost art of Ayurvedic acupuncture.

Ekanayake, Priyanwada H. 2009. Anti-bacterial and anti-cancer activity of three Sri Lankan ayurvedic plants: Turmeric (Curcuma longa L.), Neem (Azadirachta indica A. Juss), and Sweet Flag (Acorus calamus L.).

Fedorova, Mariana. 1990. Die Marmantheorie in der klassischen indischen Medizin. s.l.: s.n..

Fields, Gregory P. 1994. Religious therapeutics: body and health in yoga and ayurvedic medicine.

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Fincher, Warren Kelley. 2001. Globalizing systems of knowledge the growth and spread of ayurvedic medicine. Austin, Tex.: University of Texas. https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/bitstream/handle/2152/10467/fincherw016.pdf.

Finnipot, Melanie Ann. 2007. Commingled Rivers. Portland, Or: NCNM.

Glickman, Ian L. 1997. The relationship between Maharishi Ayurvedic Dosha types and Ayurvedic environmental aggravation on occupational stress.

Goenka, Anupam. 2001. The Nadi is not the pulse: different ways of knowing the body. BSc. Dissertation Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College, London, 2001.

Gregory, Heather M. 2004. Ayurvedic medicine: an ancient system for the contemporary world.

Gupta, Khyati. 2006. Ayurveda and its functions in the Indian urban settings. Honors thesisMillsaps College, 2006.

Halliburton, Murphy. 2000. Possession, purgatives or Prozac?: the experience of illness and the process of healing in Kerala, South India.

Hausman, Gary J. 1996. Siddhars, alchemy and the abyss of tradition 'traditional' Tamil medical knowledge in 'modern' practice. Thesis (Ph. D.)University of Michigan, 1996. http://books.google.com/books?id=b8UeAQAAMAAJ.

Hausman, Gray Jay. 1982. Natural symbols in ancient Greek and Ayurvedic medicine.

Heathcote, Sarah. 2000. What is the relevance of traditional South Asian health systems for health promotion?

Herrick, Tara Jo. 2005. Effects of Bacopa monniera on memory functioning in healthy older adults.

Hillenbrand de Palomino, Nicole. 2008. Geburtshilfe im Ayurveda des vorchristlichen Indiens. Inaug.Diss.Bonn, 2008.

Illavia, Dellna. 1997. Wind and breath in ayurveda and yoga. BSc. Dissertation -- Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1997.

Islam, Md. Nazrul. 2008. Repackaging ayurveda in post-colonial India revivalism and global commodification. Hong Kong University Theses Online. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B39848991.

Kaifi, Abdul Khalig. 1991. Socio-economic determinants of health systems in India under the aspect of colonial structures. Frankfurt: R.G. Fischer Verlag.

Khan, Sarah Khurshid. 2006. South Asian and Chinese medical systems: Ayurveda and traditional Chinese medicine treatments for Diabetes mellitus, Type 2.

Kipnis, Walter Seth. 1938. Beitrag zum Studium des Ayurveda, des Heilsystems der Inder. Lausanne: C. Risold.

Kunchok, Gyaltsen, and Boonyong Keiwkarnka. 2000. Satisfaction towards utilizing Thai traditional medicine among patients at the clinic of Ayurvedic School in Bangkok, Thailand.

Lalbahadur, Yajna. 2013. Influences on people's choice of Ayurvedic healing. Thesis (M.A.)University of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Humanities, School of Social Sciences, 2013.

Langford, Jean M. 1998. Fluent bodies: Ayurvedic remedies for postcolonial imbalance.

Lin, Zhixiu. 1999. Biological and chemical studies on selected traditional plant remedies for vitiligo. University of London.

Lovell-Smith, Hugh David. 2009. A consideration of homeostatic regulation of eating from the perspective of Maharishi Vedic Science.

Mack, Thomas. 1990. Hemmung der Biosynthese der 5 - Lipoxygenaseprodukte stimulierter neutrophiler Granulozyten der Ratte durch Extrakte aus dem Harz von Boswellia Serrata Roxb. und durch Boswellisäuren.

Mādhavakara, and Gerrit Jan Meulenbeld. 1974. The Mādhavanidāna and its chief commentary, chapters 1-10: introduction, translation and notes. Leiden: E.J. Brill.

Maharaj, Malthi. 1998. Cognitive coping strategies for parents with learning disabled children. Thesis (DEd)University of South Africa, 1998.

Malowany, Maureen. 2002. Medical pluralism: disease, health and healing on the Coast of Kenya, 1840-1940.

Markandu, Roshini. 2005. The amino acid composition of Mucuna pruriens beans.

Marr, Gerald S. 2003. Elemental Archetypes. Carpinteria, Calif: Pacifica Graduate Institute.

McCabe, Pauline. 2000. Immanent health: revealing the shared phenomenal ground in the traditions of naturopathy, Chinese medicine and Ayurveda, utilising hermeneutic philosophy.

Meredith, Marcia Jean. 2002. The relationship between changes in symptoms of fatigue in individuals diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome and the adoption of Ayurvedic dietary practices.

Middlekoop, Teunis B. 1985. Evaluation of Asoka aristha, a drug indigenous to Sri Lanka : a pharmacognostic study = evaluatie van Asoka aristha : een inheems geneesmiddel uit Sri Lanka. Utrecht: Krips Repro Meppel.

Miqueu-Rey, Léopold. 1905. Contribution à l'étude de la phtisie pulmonaire dans l'Inde ancienne d'après l'Ayurveda de Sucruta.

Morehead, Paul James, and Mahesh Yogi. 2009. Prevention of cardiovascular disease in Maharishi Ayur-Veda participants. Ann Arbor, Mich: Dissertation Information Service.

Morgan, Christopher Raymond. 1990. Ayurveda: medical philosophy in a classical age.

Moss, Dresden, and Mary Mead Gibbs. 1998. The teja system: new insight into chakra healing.

Mubarak, Xochitl Del Carmen Ricart. 1997. A traditional and Ayurvedic academic health centre for Durban.

Nāgārjuna, Nāgārjuna, Vararuci, and Heinz Helmuth Michael Schmidt. 1978. Das Yogaśata: ein Zeugnis altindischer Medizin in Sanskrit und Tibetisch. Bonn: H.H.M. Schmidt.

Nala, and Heike Gilbert. 1995. Das Pākadarpaṇa: eines altes indisches Kochbuch. Marburg: s.n..

Nelson, Christina Leigh. 2006. Antibacterial, antiviral, and allelopathic effects of Ayurvedic herbs.

Nulu, Shanti. 2004. Contested bodies and seminal politics: what matters in the Indian medical landscape. Thesis (M.A.)Harvard University, 2004.

Oberholzer, Hester Magdalena. 2007. Investigating the effect of Withania somnifera on coagulation, blood count and bronchial lavage of Balb/c mice.

Ojhā, Navīnacandra Harshdarāya. 1973. Abhraka bhasma kā pāṇḍuroga para kāryānveshaṇa: rasaśāstravibhāgāntargata snātakottara mahānibandha, 1965-66. Jāmanagara: Gujarāta Āyurveda Yunivarsiṭī.

Omar, Read. 2011. Compounds from Eugenia Jambolana (Jamun) berries beyond anthocyanins.

Pas-Mula Mahā-Sāmi, D. C. P. Beneragama, and Saraṇaṅkara. 1953. A critical edition of chapters 1-18 of the Bhesajja Mañjusā with extracts from the commentary of Saraṇaṅkara, notes, and an essay on its position in the Āyurvedic medical literature of Ceylon.

Pāṭaṇakara, Yaśavanta Vāsudeva. 1960. Dehaprakr̥ti vijñānam. Jāmanagara: Posṭa Grêjyueṭa Ṭreniṅga Seṇṭara in Āyurveda, Gavharnamenṭa ôpha Iṇḍiyā.

Patel, Ketna P. 2004. Isolation of L-dopa and some of the naturally occurring unknowns present in mucuna pruriens.

Phillips, Mark. 2001. Indian marman and Chinese acupoints: a comparative study. Thesis (M. Sc.)University of Technology, Sydney, 2001.

Pires, Melanie Eva. 2001. A biological and phytochemical investigation of Vernonia anthelmintica (L.) willd. with respect to its potential use in psoriasis. London: University of London.

Pitman, Victoria Burgess. 1998. An investigation into sources of holistic medicine in the hippocratic Corpus: a comparative approach using the Caraka Samhita of ayurveda. Exeter?: publisher not identified.

Rajkoomar, Suhana. 2011. A double-blind homoeopathic drug proving of Curcuma longa 30CH with the subsequent comparison to the Ayurvedic and phytotherapeutic indications thereof.

Raṇasiṃha, Sarat Jī. 1997. Śrī Laṅkā rāṣaṇā hi pratipradāha guṇa piḷibanda śāyanika saha parīkṣaṇātmaka adhyayanayak.

Reddy, Sita. 2000. Reinventing medical traditions: the professionalization of Ayurveda in contemporary America.

Rehm, Klaus E., and Klaus E. Rehm. 1969. Die Rolle des Buddhismus in der Indischen Medizin und das Spitalproblem. Zürich: Juris.

Rioux, Jennifer Grace. 2002. Ayurvedic practice, alternative modes of knowing and social transformation.

Robinson, Donald Keith. 1999. Health promotion in the elderly: changes in endocrine function after three months of modern or traditional treatment. Ann Arbor, Mich: Dissertation Information Service.

Rodhey, Sandeep Sunny. 2007. Analysis of Ayurvedic medicinal products for heavy metals using a direct combustion mercury analyzer and inductively coupled plasma - mass spectrometry (ICP-MS). Thesis (M.S.) Pace University, 2007.

Rower, Scott. 2011. Ayurvedic doshas and Western personality constructs: is there a connection? Thesis (Ph. D.)Alliant International University, California School of Professional Psychology, Los Angeles, 2011.

Sadāśiva Śarmā, Ke. 1961. Samprāptilakṣaṇayossambandhaḥ. Jāmanagaram: Ayurvedīya Snātakottara-Śikṣaṇa-Kendram, Gavharnamenṭa ôpha Iṇḍiyā.

Salerno, John William. 1991. Selective growth inhibition of human colon adenocarcinoma and malignant melanoma cell lines by sesame oil in vitro. Ann Arbor, Mich: Dissertation Information Service.

Salunkhe, Swapnali. 2003. Yoga and Ayurveda Retreat. Project (M. Arch.)University of South Florida, 2003.

Śarmā, Hariśaṅkara. 1961. Śulva-śāstram. Jāmanagaram: Āyurvedīya Snātakottara-Śikshaṇa-Kendram, Gavharnameṇṭa ôpha Iṇḍiyā.

Schmidt, Heinz Helmut Michael. 1978. Das Yogaśata: ein Zeugnis altindischer Medizin in Sanskrit und Tibetisch. Inaug.-Diss.Bonn.

Schöllhorn, Claudia. 1994. Strukturchemische und immunologische Untersuchungen von Polysacchariden aus Withania somnifera (L.) Dunal und Untersuchungen zur Struktur-Wirkungs-Beziehung von Polysacchariden aus Echinacea-purpurea-Zellsuspensionskulturen.

Shah, Monica Balkrishna. 1999. Medical Swaraj: ayurveda in colonial India during the nationalist period (1920-1947).

Shanbhag, Gayathri. 1997. Overall health benefits of Ayur-vedic diet spice tea, and combined plans based on Ayur-vedic individual constitution.

Sheehan, Helen Elizabeth. 1983. Organization, practice, and patronage of Ayurvedic and Unani medical systems in contemporary Hyderabad. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania.

Shypertt, Mary Margaret. 1986. Self-mastery in the ancient world Patañjali and Caraka.

Steinthal, Barbara Joan. 1984. The Ayurvedic revivalist movement in early twentieth century British India.

Stone, Linda Sue. 1985. Illness, hierarchy and food symbolism in Hindu Nepal.

Summarsell, Lisa Heidi. 1999. The Ayurvedic movement: the struggle to regain a nation's heritage. Thesis (B.A.(Hons))Flinders University of South Australia, Dept of History, 2000.

Tancredi, David. 1984. The ambiguities of Ayurvedic medical practice in modernizing urban India.

Thaker, Pramod B. 1995. Philosophical foundations in ancient Indian medicine: science, philosophy, and ethics in Caraka-samhitā.

Tirodkar, Manasi. 2005. Adaptations of contemporary Ayurvedic medical practice in urban India. Thesis (Ph. D.)University of Chicago, Dept. of Comparative Human Development, December 2005.

Tripāṭhī, Brahmānanda. 1977. Lolimbarāja aura unakī kṛtiyām̐: eka adhyayana. Vārāṇasī: Tripāṭhī.

Trollope-Kumar, Karen. 2001. Speaking through the body: leukorrhea as a bodily idiom of communication in Garhwal, India. Thesis (Ph. D.)McMaster University, 2001.

Unger, Kathrin M. 1989. A study of two systems of traditional medicine in India: Ayurveda and Irula tribal medicine.

Ventura, Sara Lis. 2002. Il prāṇa od di ció che muove il mondo: l'energia all'origine della vita nelle tradizioni sapienziali dell'India Brāhmaṇica.

Weckerling, Adolf. 1929. Die Tridosa-lehre in der indischen medizin.

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Weiss, Mitchell Gralnick. 1977. Critical study of u̲n̲m̲ā̲d̲a̲ in the early Sanskrit medical literature: an analysis of Ayurvedic psychiatry with reference to present-day diagnostic concepts.

Wickersheimer, Michael. 2013. Healing by design: how sustainable design strategies that pertain to the built environment can be found in the frameworks and principles of complementary & alternative medicine. Thesis (M.A.)Fashion Institute of Technology. Sustainable Interior Environments, 2013.

Wijeweera, Priyantha. 2003. Phytochemical basis for the anxiolytic activity of the ayurvedic medicinal plant Centella Asiatica (L.) Urb. (Gotukola). Thesis (M. Sc.)--University of Ottawa, 2003.

Zysk, Kenneth G. 1981. Early Vedic ideas of disease and healing: with translations and annotations of medical hymns from the Ṛgveda and the Atharvaveda.

Zysk, Kenneth G. 1985. Religious healing in the Veda: with translations and annotations of medical hymns from the Ṛgveda and the Atharvaveda and renderings from the corresponding ritual texts. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society.