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Volume 8 (2013): Issue 1 (Sep 2013): Mercury in Ayurveda and Tibetan Medicine

in Asian Medicine
Publisher:
Brill
Editorial
By: Barbara Gerke
Pages: 1–14
Publication Date: 17 Sep 2013
Perfect Medicine
Mercury in Sanskrit Medical Literature
By: Dagmar Wujastyk
Pages: 15–40
Publication Date: 17 Sep 2013
Alchemical Gold and the Pursuit of the Mercurial Elixir
An Analysis of Two Alchemical Treatises from the Tibetan Buddhist Canon
By: Carmen Simioli
Pages: 41–74
Publication Date: 17 Sep 2013
On the History of Refining Mercury in Tibetan Medicine
By: Olaf Czaja
Pages: 75–105
Publication Date: 17 Sep 2013
Understanding Ideas of Toxicity in Tibetan Medical Processing of Mercury
By: Sonam Dolma
Pages: 106–119
Publication Date: 17 Sep 2013
The Social Life of Tsotel
Processing Mercury in Contemporary Tibetan Medicine
By: Barbara Gerke
Pages: 120–152
Publication Date: 17 Sep 2013
Politics of Knowledge in the Debates on Toxicity in Ayurvedic Medicines
Recent Controversies over Bhasmas
By: Madhulika Banerjee
Pages: 153–179
Publication Date: 17 Sep 2013
The Mercury Puzzle
A Physician’s View on Legal Aspects of the Contemporary Medical Use of Mercury in Germany
By: Jürgen C. Aschoff
Pages: 199–210
Publication Date: 17 Sep 2013
Growing up with Mercury in an Ayurvedic Family Tradition in Northern India
By: Vaidya Balendu Prakash
Pages: 211–228
Publication Date: 17 Sep 2013
Preparing Red and Black Mercury Sulphide in an Ayurvedic Setting
By: Narendra Bhatt
Pages: 229–238
Publication Date: 17 Sep 2013
Notes on Contributors
Pages: 239–242
Publication Date: 17 Sep 2013