HIV/AIDS and Traditional Medicine

Discusses the basis on which traditional systems of medicine provide treatment for HIV / AIDS, describes the actual herbal remedies in Ayurveda and the other systems which have been clinically-evaluated, lists the constraints and problems encountered and ends with a series of suggestions and recommendations for further work.

Table of Contents

• Preface

• Abbreviations

• Introduction

• HIV/ Global Scenario and the African G. Bodekar

• HIV/ The Indian Q.B. Saxena

• Problems in Evaluation of Traditional Medicine in S.A. Dhanukar

• Clinical Trials of Two Herbal Combination Preparation on HIV/AIDS A Double-blind S. Rohatgi

• The Efficacy of an Ayurveda Drug Formulation Against HIV/ R. Kuttan

• Treatment of HIV/AIDS Patients by Ayurvedic Principles and C.N. Deivanayagam

• Role of Ayurveda in the Management of S. Chaturvedi

• Scope of Ayurveda (Traditional Medicine) in the Management of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV/AIDS) and V.N. Pandey

• Studies on Plants for Control of HIV/AIDS in S. Sharma

• HIV/AIDS and Some H.S. Palep

• Biospermecides-cum-Microbiocides and HIV/ G.P. Talwar

• Immunomodulation as a Strategy for Restoration of Immunocompetence for Protection Against Opportunistic S. N. Upadhyay

• HIV/AIDS and the Use of S. Kant

• An Overview of the G. Bodekar

• Jai P. Narain

• Homeopathy Trails in Patients with HIV/ V.P. Singh

• Closing R. R. Chaudhary

• Closing V. Ramalingaswami

• Recommendations