The relation between siddha medicine and nanotechnology is mostly related to the size.
The size of some siddha powders like Ayakantha chenduram, ayabringa chendrum are observed to the nearly 25 nm in size as per my investigation using AFM analysis.
And the some of the nature of pashubams such as Ag, Au is similar to that of functionalized gold and silver quantum dots.
It seems to be siddha medicine uses nanoparticles long years before.
you mean AIDS
AIDS virus has a micro and nanosize, so it would be studied in nanotechnology
i have no detailed idea regarding sidha medical science. But i can say that, Ayurveda medical science has high co-relation with nanomedical science. I believe sidha medical science have some similarities with ayurveda. You can find a lot of papers, in which phytochemicals or plant extracts used for the synthesis of nanoparticles. Now a days, we modifies the area with different names and categories, apart from that all things relied on the traditional insights and knowledge. Even in International journal of ayurveda, you can find different articles related to the systhesis or identification of nanoparticles in the ayurvedic formulations.
The relation between siddha medicine and nanotechnology is mostly related to the size.
The size of some siddha powders like Ayakantha chenduram, ayabringa chendrum are observed to the nearly 25 nm in size as per my investigation using AFM analysis.
And the some of the nature of pashubams such as Ag, Au is similar to that of functionalized gold and silver quantum dots.
It seems to be siddha medicine uses nanoparticles long years before.
Dear S. Merish
This work is not published in as research articles.
I want to share a hypothesis, during the period of sidhas in Tamil literature, they live in western ghats. Surprisingly western ghats are the regions of catchment areas of perennial rivers. Further, the mineral wealth of this region is tremendous potential. Namely with Gold, Iron, Manganese, Calcite, etc., the fresh waters, conducive climate, good monsoons during those years cultivate so many algae species in this region. Some of them are grow in fresh water and fresh atmosphere in mineral wealthy soils. The extremo philes which presents in these areas makes these minerals to bio-accumulate in to some specific algae species and helps to control the ageing property of mankind by consuming these algal species, they helps these sidhas to live long life and find so many herbal medicines and give it to the humans. This is not properly documented or researched.
- Siddha medicine is one of the oldest (5000 years old) well documented Indian traditional medicine, as compared to Ayurveda, Unani, and Traditional Chinese Medicine, by way of keen observation and experimentation. It mentions 108 diseases that occur in childhood which are further classified and described into various sub-types based on the clinical features and different stages of a particular disease. The authors translate the elegant and detailed description of one neonatal disorder ie infantile seborrheic dermatitis (cradle cap) called ‘kabala kuttam’ (KK), described in 17 stanzas of four lines for each stanza from Tamil language script into English. There are 5 different types of cradle cap which include white type, dark black type, red type, weeping type, and toxic type. Four polyherbal formulations are described for external and/or oral administration, in which there is mention of 39 herbals and pure sulfur as ingredients.
- Nanotechnology ("nanotech") is the manipulation of matter on an atomic, molecular, and supramolecular scale. The earliest, widespread description of nanotechnology referred to the particular technological goal of precisely manipulating atoms and molecules for fabrication of macroscale products, also now referred to as molecular nanotechnology. A more generalized description of nanotechnology was subsequently established by the National Nanotechnology Initiative, which defines nanotechnology as the manipulation of matter with at least one dimension sized from 1 to 100 nanometers. This definition reflects the fact that quantum mechanical effects are important at this quantum-realm scale, and so the definition shifted from a particular technological goal to a research category inclusive of all types of research and technologies that deal with the special properties of matter that occur below the given size threshold. It is therefore common to see the plural form "nanotechnologies" as well as "nanoscale technologies" to refer to the broad range of research and applications whose common trait is size.
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