2.INDIAN ETHNOMEDICINES - ORIGINS IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF DOCTRINE OF SIGNATURE BY D.A.PATIL

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  • D.A. PATIL

Abstract

Over time, primitive societies acquired knowledge about medicinal plants in their own
surroundings. The present review has confined to the origin of knowledge of medicinal virtues of
plants struck for the first time to the human mind. These virtues are discussed highlighting the
‘doctrine of signatures’. Various plant features are conceived as indicative of medicinal properties.
Select 55 plants species have been critically studied encompassing nearly 21 different human
sufferings. Human thinking on nature’s gifts particularly beneficial for ailments such as
bites/stings of animals, jaundice, yellow urination, bone fracture, kidney-stone, obesity, swellings,
leucoderma, burns, boils, sunstroke, blood diseases, fever, diabetes, hair-growth, complaints of
lactation and sex are critically thought over in the said perspective.
KEY WORD: Medicine, origin, Doctrine of Signatures.

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Author Biography

D.A. PATIL

INDIAN ETHNOMEDICINES : ORIGINS IN THE
PERSPECTIVE OF DOCTRINE OF SIGNATURE
D.A.PATIL
POST-GRADUATE DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY,
S.S.V.P.S’S L.K.DR.P.R.GHOGREY SCIENCE COLLEGE, DHULE-424005, INDIA.
dapatil_10aug@yahoo.com

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2012-01-01

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PATIL, D. (2012). 2.INDIAN ETHNOMEDICINES - ORIGINS IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF DOCTRINE OF SIGNATURE BY D.A.PATIL. LIFE SCIENCES LEAFLETS, 23, 5 to 15. Retrieved from https://petsd.org/ojs/index.php/lifesciencesleaflets/article/view/246

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Vol. 23 (2012): January,2012.....ISSN 0976 - 1098

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