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Role of early intervention of Ayurveda in Hepatitis-A - A Case Study
Get PDFHepatitis A is the inflammation of the liver caused by the Hepatitis-A virus. 1.5 million clinical cases are recorded annually worldwide and are responsible for 15,000 to 30,000 deaths per year.[1] Acute viral hepatitis (AVH) has resemblance with Kamala mentioned in Ayurveda. Kamala is a disease of the Rakta Dusti and Pitta Prakopa. Virechana with Mridu and Tiktaka drugs along with wholesome diet is the principle to treat the condition in Ayurveda. A 20-year-old male diagnosed with hepatitis-A treated in accordance to the Ayurvedic principles, that is, Mridu Virechana and Pitta Samana. The total duration of the treatment is for 30 days. In this case, a complete remission of symptoms with a substantial reduction in bilirubin and hepatic enzymes observed following Ayurvedic treatment
A Simplified Review on Concepts of “Bhaishajyopakramaniyam” of Kashyap Samhita
No full textAs a revered Ayurvedic treatise, the Kashyap Samhita focuses on Kaumarabhritya i.e., Ayurvedic Paediatrics. “Bhaishajyopakramaniyam” chapter from Khila Stana of available Kashyap Samhita offers guidance on key therapeutic approaches, right from classification of diseases, and their causes, to their treatment aspects. It details on Kalpanas (preparations), appropriate dosage forms, medication according to age and constitution, and the role of Anupana. It provides systemic approach to drug administration for infants, emphasising the use of Samana and Sodhana therapies. The study brings forth important definitions and their derivations and exclusive concepts that are dealt only by Acharya Kashyap
A Case Study on the efficacy of Ayurvedic drugs in treating Kidney Stones
No full textKidney stones also known as nephrolithiasis, is a common disorder characterized by the formation of mineral and salt deposits within the kidneys. These deposits or stones, can cause significant pain and discomfort as they travel through the urinary tract. While many stones pass on their own, some require medical intervention. Kidney stones resemble the description of Ashmari in Ayurveda and due to its dreadful nature, Ashmari is included in Astamahagadha[1] and it is regarded as a grave disease simulating death.[2] The present case study is of a 19-year-old female patient having symptoms of back pain radiating from the loin to the groin region, burning micturition, pain during and after micturition, nausea, and vomiting. The clinical diagnosis made based on the symptoms as Ashmari (kidney stone). Patient was put on Samshamani drugs (Varanadi Ghrita, Punarnava Asava, etc) for period of one month along with Pathya Apathya. After Ayurvedic medication, the patient was relieved from all the symptoms and that was evident on investigations as well. This piece of work aims to study the effect and potency of ayurvedic drugs on kidney stones of small size (4-6mm), in a short period of time and impeding them from going through minimally invasive procedures
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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