Dietetic Code in Ayurveda

Goswami, Pronnoy; Yadav, Sudama Singh

doi:10.13005/bpj/300

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“…As Krishna had allowed Siva-jwar alone to rule the world, there was only one principal type of fever. 68 This Siva-jwar in turn could be none other than Bisham-jwar as Siva was always accompanied by bhutas and Bisham-jwar was known to be caused by bhutas. Having established this position, Goswami proceeded to argue that bhuta, however, were not those creatures of popular imagination that were 'tall as palm-trees, with huge arms, deep-set eyes and a nasal voice'.…”

Section: Modernised Ayurveda and The Metaphorisation Of Jwarasurmentioning

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In-Disciplining Jwarasur: The Folk/Classical Divide and Transmateriality of Fevers in Colonial Bengal

Mukharji

2013

The Indian Economic & Social History Review

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Extant scholarship on Jwarasur [the Fever-Demon] sees him as a colonial-era invention tied to the exigencies of colonial rule. Jwarasur is held to belong exclusively to the domain of Bengali ‘folk medicine’ rather than ‘classical Ayurveda’. We challenge both these contentions and draw four inter-related inferences. First, we posit that Jwarasur was not alien to classical Ayurvedic medicine. Second, we claim that Jwarasur was significant to the way Ayurvedic physicians negotiated fever. Third, we trace the invention of the folk/classical divide under colonial modernity. Finally, we posit that the divide inspired new reading strategies through which modernising Ayurvedists sought to expunge the transmateriality of Jwarasur. Jwarasur, we find, was constantly re-embedded into multiple heterogeneous traditions of medical and religio-moral practice. These diverse embeddings actively militate against the existence of any corpuscular ‘systems’ called ‘folk’ or ‘classical’ medicine. Rather Jwarasur is a common figure that networks a number of heterogeneous, amorphous domains. The extant disciplinary protocols of History, Anthropology, etc., however, are blind to this networked past and hence keep alive the colonial distinctions of ‘folk’ and ‘classical’. Our critical history contrapuntally, seeks to restore the promiscuity of these corpuscular fields and historicise the divisions that distinguish them.

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Section: Modernised Ayurveda and The Metaphorisation Of Jwarasurmentioning

confidence: 98%

In-Disciplining Jwarasur: The Folk/Classical Divide and Transmateriality of Fevers in Colonial Bengal

Mukharji

2013

The Indian Economic & Social History Review

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“…In shell nacre, the aragonite micro‐crystals preferentially orient their c axes perpendicular to laminae but those with other orientations also exist in several cases. [ 13,15,18–23 ] The ab ‐planar orientation of aragonite is aligned [ 24–28 ] or unaligned. [ 8,13,23,29,30 ] The crystallographic orientation of aragonite in pearl nacre seems to be much more constrained.…”

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Polarized Raman spectroscopy reveals unaligned orientation in pearls

Gao

Zhang

Wu³

et al. 2023

J Raman Spectroscopy

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Polarized Raman spectroscopy is a useful technique in studying orientation of molecular vibrations of crystals, which, however, has been applied insufficiently in crystallography, mineralogy, or geology. This present study is devoted to measure the transversal orientation of high‐quality cultivated pearls using polarized Raman spectroscopy. The pearls were cultivated by Pinctada fucata in Japan, consisting of aragonite dominantly. On the pearl surface, the aragonite micro‐crystals show irregularly hexagonal and pentagonal shapes, orienting their c axes towards the pearl surface. A number of aragonite micro‐crystals makes up a lamina with a noncircular contour, and a batch of laminae stacks up with a decreasing area from bottom to top to form a target pattern. So there is an abundant of target patterns spreading over the pearl surface. Using a marker on the pearl surface as a reference, angular variation of aragonite is quantifiable by measuring mode intensities of aragonite and depolarization ratio. Polarized Raman images are collected on the pearl surface, which show spatial differences in orientation of aragonite micro‐crystals on the mesoscopic scale. This transversal heterogeneity exists not only between different laminae but also between aragonite micro‐crystals on the same lamina. We suggest that the development of the stress around the aragonite micro‐grains lead to the angular variations of aragonite. The orientation of biominerals has been studied using transmission electron microscope (TEM) and electron back‐scattered diffraction (EBSD). The present study indicates another sensitive technique of polarized Raman spectroscopy to evaluate molecular orientation in biominerals.

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Dietetic Code in Ayurveda

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In-Disciplining Jwarasur: The Folk/Classical Divide and Transmateriality of Fevers in Colonial Bengal

In-Disciplining Jwarasur: The Folk/Classical Divide and Transmateriality of Fevers in Colonial Bengal

Polarized Raman spectroscopy reveals unaligned orientation in pearls

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